Incoming from Brad Camroux: > On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 04:13:22PM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > > Incoming from Brad Camroux: > > > > > > /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
KEEP THAT THOUGHT. > get negative results with > > # cdrecord --scanbus > > or > > # cdrecord --scanbus dev=/dev/xxx Now that YOU'RE NOT USING IT AS A SCSI DEVICE: cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI > 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. Yes, because YOU'RE NO LONGER TELLING THE KERNEL IT'S A SCSI DEVICE, which is what the append line in lilo.conf did. IFF you have a recent kernel, it may work better as ATAPI. IFF you have an older kernel, YOU MUST USE IT AS A SCSI DEVICE. Yes, it mounts fine. Your object, though, is to use it as a burner. -- 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

