For the record, since I sent the original email, I have been to VFXWeb to get a power Y-splitter so that I can have both the DVD combo drive and my original CD-ROM drive together. Therefore I now have /dev/cdrom mounting at /cdrom as it was before I got the DVD combo. The CD-ROM is working fine still. I just need to get the DVD combo going and I'll be happy.
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 01:09:29PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > 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? gandalf:/etc# mount /dev/hdc mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab I realize that I'll need to add this into the /etc/fstab file... but I'm not sure how to do this for a DVD Combo drive. Are there any special commands I need to use? Also, can I put it at some arbitrary mount point, say /dvd or /cdrw ? > > > > 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 > gandalf:/etc# cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI Cdrecord 1.10 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J�rg Schilling scsidev: 'ATAPI' devname: 'ATAPI' scsibus: -2 target: -2 lun: -2 cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root. I'm not quite sure what this means, but there is more here than when I didn't use the dev=ATAPI option. > > > > 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? I have checked the lists.debian.org archives to no avail... but then I'm not really all that good at searching archives like that. I shall try the groups.google.com route next as well. I shall try adding the 'append...' line to lilo.conf as suggested, too. Thanks, -- +--------------------------+-------------------------------+ |Brad Camroux | === http://www.debian.org === | |Student | ============================= | |Geophysics & Applied Math | Proud admin and user of Debian| |University of Calgary | since 2003... because Red Hat | |Calgary, AB, Canada | just didn't cut it | +--------------------------+-------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
