Incoming from Brad Camroux: > > Now, I managed to get the drive to mount a data CD last night. Then > something happened (I rebooted) and it wouldn't work anymore. > > Typing 'mount /dvd' or 'mount /dev/dvd' gives me: > gandalf:/dev# mount /dvd > ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv > hdc driver not present > mount: /dev/dvd is not a valid block device > > gandalf:/dev# mount /dev/hdc > ide-floppy driver 0.97.sv > hdc driver not present > mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab > > I have the following in my /etc/fstab: > > [...] > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0 > /dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,user,noauto,ro 0 0 ..^^^^^^^^
Change that to /dev/hdc > Also, I have made a symlink of /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdc. However, when I do > ls -ltrh /dev/hdc I get > brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 0 Mar 14 2002 hdc This is just needlessly complicating things. > Could this have something to do with my problems? I don't think it > should, but I suppose it's possible. It seems, actually, that it > stopped working after I put the "append="hdc=ide-scsi"" line in my > lilo.conf, so I'll try taking that out and see what happens. Leave it alone. Try one thing at a time. If you're not sure what's broke, don't fix anything. :-) -- 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
