On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, you 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
> > >
> > >
> >
> > Do you have the drive set up using SCSI emulation? If so, just create a
> > link between /dev/cdrom and /dev/sg1.
> >
> Problem is, I *think* he's already got a CDROM in there....
> and he wants to be able to use BOTH.
> John
If you're using an ATAPI drive under SCSI emulation then you need to mount it
using the appropriate SCSI device. i.e. replace /dev/hdd in your mount command with
/dev/sr0 (or whatever device the drive is using; my CDR uses sr0).
-Tom
