On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:13:22PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > 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
Well... I commented out the "append ..." line in lilo.conf, and now the command 'mount /dvd' works fine, even for non-root users. Only thing now is that I worry I won't be able to write to blank CDs. I haven't tried that yet, mostly because I don't know how to use cdrecord yet. But I still get negative results with # cdrecord --scanbus or # cdrecord --scanbus dev=/dev/xxx where xxx is either hdc or dvd. I was getting these negative results even when the append line in lilo.conf was still active. What follows is a snip from my dmesg output: <SNIP> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 Red Hat/Adaptec aacraid driver, Apr 14 2002 DC390: 0 adapters found 3ware Storage Controller device driver for Linux v1.02.00.016. 3w-xxxx: No cards with valid units found. request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted request_module[scsi_hostadapter]: Root fs not mounted i2o_scsi.c: Version 0.0.1 chain_pool: 0 bytes @ c5fc2460 (512 byte buffers X 4 can_queue X 0 i2o controllers) </SNIP> Seems to me that the SCSI adapter was (is) not being loaded. > > > 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. This works fine when I don't have the "append=..." line in lilo.conf. > > 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 > -- +--------------------------+-------------------------------+ |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
