Incoming from Brad Camroux: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 01:11:05AM -0600, Jesse Kline wrote: > > Quoting Brad Camroux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > I purchased a DVD-ROM/CD-RW drive at VFXWeb during Saturday's > > > installfest. However, I've not been very successful in attempts to get > > > > Can you give more details? Does the system see it when it boots up (try running > > dmesg to find out)? Can you mount cd-roms with it? If not, what errors are you > > Apparently the system does see the drive at boot time. Here's a snip > from my 'dmesg' output: > > <SNIP> > hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=2434/255/63 > hdb: 66055248 sectors (33820 MB) w/1916KiB Cache, CHS=4111/255/63 > hdc: ATAPI 52X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 > </SNIP> > > However, I am not able to mount CD-ROMs on this drive. When I try, I > get: > > gandalf:/etc# mount /cdrom > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
What is /dev/cdrom? What happens when you mount /dev/hdc? > > > My CD-ROM drive has been working nicely without any SCSI-emulation, > > > though I understand this is required in order to use a CD-RW and/or > > > DVD-ROM. That was true with older kernels. 2.4.2x handle it without scsi emulation. It's something like: cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI > > > Has anyone got a CD-RW working in Debian Woody, and if so, could you > > > send me details? I don't want to have to reinstall woody! Have you looked in the archives at lists.debian.org and groups.google.com? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
