David's Speedchoice Mail (not Chmouel Boudjnah) wrote:
> 2.. Several of the subdirectories in /mnt , floppy and cdrom are
> "locked"; in other words, I don't have permission to access those
> directories even as root. I tried some things; I accessed Linuxconf,
> created a new mount points using /mnt/cdrom3 ( I have two CDROM
> drives, one a writer) for partition /mnt/cdrom, and it promptly locked
> the new folder! So the net effect is that I cannot access one of my
> CDROM drives, and it would be the CD writer that I was excited about
> testing under Linux...
Ahh! I had the same problem with my CD-Writer after installing 7.0 (Air).
In my case, it was /mnt/cdrom2, corresponding to my CD-Writer. A quick
check in /dev showed /dev/cdrom2 was a soft link to /dev/hdd, which would
be correct if it weren't for the "hdd=ide-scsi" passed to the kernel at
boot time. By entering these commands, you should fix the problem and be
able to access disks in the CD-Writer:
cd /dev
rm cdrom2
ln -s scd0 cdrom2
You should, of course, replace "cdrom2" with the broken link in your
system. Once this is done, you'll be able to access /mnt/cdrom2 (or
whichever it is).
-- Guy T. Rice ---------------------------------- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --
"Every human being should pursue his or her own dharma perfectly instead
of following another's dharma imperfectly." -- Hindu scriptures
