Incoming from Brad Camroux: > 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
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,user,noauto,ro 0 0 > Also, can I put it at some arbitrary mount point, say /dvd or /cdrw ? Sure. It will just mean you type "mount /dvd" when you want to use it. > 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. What does "cdrecord --scanbus dev=/dev/hdc" say? > I shall try adding the 'append...' line to lilo.conf as suggested, too. As I say, if you've one of the later kernels, you don't need it, and ATAPI support may be better than scsi support. You should try to get the best you can out of it (speed?). -- 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
