On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
> ---Reply to mail from David van Balen about [expert] mounting cdrw
> >
> > Is there a way to mount my cdrw drive so that I can view it like my cdrom?
> > It's an ATAPI BCE 62IE drive and works fine for writing. I've tried mount
> > -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw and that doesn't work, it says wrong fs type
> > or too many mounts. I tried a couple other fs types and they didn't work
> > either (i.e. auto the way the cdrom is configured in /etc/fstab).
> > Is there a way to do this?
> >
> > DvB
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> Do you have the drive set up using SCSI emulation? If so, just create a
> link between /dev/cdrom and /dev/sg1.
Hmm... you mean a symbolic link? (ln -s /dev/sg1 /mnt/cdrw). I can do that
but it doesn't do me much good since the link isn't a directory... I can't
use the mount command on /dev/sg1 either since it's "not a block device."
... any other ideas? BTW, I am using SCSI emulation.
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> Peace,
> ---End reply
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> Jonathan Dlouhy
> Principal Oboe,
> Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
> Thursday, October 21, 1999
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