Check the jumper on your dvd-combo , if you have a master, and you have, this drive can only be master on the other chanel. else it has to be slave, and never cable-select.
Cheers Szemir On August 9, 2004 16:06, Jesse Kline wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 12:37, Brad Camroux wrote: > > 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> > > So the system sees the drive, that's a good thing. > > > 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 > > Did you edit your /etc/inittab? You have to do this to tell the system > what device to mount when you issue the command mount /cdrom. Try > inserting a data cd and running the command: > # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom > let me know what the output is. > > > For the record, I'm running the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. I've not got my > > kernel-upgrading boots on to bring in the 2.6 kernel. Can I do that > > using apt-get? > > You should be able to use apt-get to install a new kernel, if one is > available. You will just have to make sure that the kernel is installed, > rather than upgraded, and that a number of other packages are upgraded > so that you can use the 2.6 kernel and all it's features. I'm not sure > if testing is using the 2.6 kernel, you might have to upgrade to > unstable if you want a system that is built for 2.6, or you could > compile it yourself. That being said, the 2.6 kernel is not necessary > for using a dvd drive under Linux. > > > Yes... I do recall your adventures with the Deb. Installer. Did you > > manage to have some success with SuSE? Did you get that RAID stuff > > figured out? > > I forgot how much of a pain in the ass Debian was. I hope the new Debian > installer in the testing branch is better than the old one. There are > lots of things that I like about Debian, but getting it installed and > getting everything up and running is a big problem. Sid is supposed to > be released in September, so I will give it another try once it becomes > stable. I also know that there are some third-party installers, has > anyone tried any of these? > The Suse install whent well. Hardware detection rocks! I did manage to > get RAID going with a fat32 partition, it seems to work now. I also > found some information on getting the system to auto-login and run an > interactive program. I have not tried it yet, but I will give it a try > sometime this week. Here is what I am going to try: > http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/chung.html there is some information > about half way down the page on creating a program called autologinfred > that will autologin a regular user. Under that there is some information > about getting X to launch automatically, which I will modify for my > emulator. > > Jesse > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
