On Monday 25 December 2000 00:24, you wrote:
> I installed Mandrake7.2 from ISO off the net.
>
> I have 2 IDE CDROMS.. one is a CDRW, in most cases with other distros, I
> compile the kernel for generic SCSI support and works fine.
> I have xcdroast intsalled and I did these commands to make sr0 and sr1,
> because niether existed.
>
> shell>mknod /dev/sr1 b 11 1 -m 640 2>/dev/null
> shell>mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0 -m 540 2>/dev/null
>
what user and group?
> /dev shows sr0 and sr1 and my fstab reads as follows, I also symlinked
> /dev/sr0 to /dev/cdrom and /dev/sr1 to /dev/cdrom2 respectivley.
>
> /etc/fstab
>
> #####CDROM entry#####
>
> /mnt/sr0 /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev/=dev/sr0 0 0
> /mnt/sr1 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev/=dev/sr1 0 0
>
> ####END #####
>
> cdrecrod scanbus only shows the first cdrom, and not the cdrw, though I
> know it works cuz I had it working with a SuSE distro. (IF you ask why I
> changed it is because I like Mandrake a little bit more).
> I am able to mount both cdroms, but even though I have different CD's in
> the trays it only shows the first cdrom.
>
> I.E.
>
> shell>mount /mnt/cdrom
> shell>cd /mnt/cdrom
> shell>ls
> shell>file1 file2 file3
>
> shell>mount /mnt/cdrom2
> shell>cd /mnt/cdrom2
> shell>ls
> shell>file1 file2 file3
>
> I also removed the append line for ide-scsi from /etc/lilo.conf and ran
> /sbin/lilo
>
Huh? s/b append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" or similar
Whay is in /etc/modules.conf?
cat /etc/modules.conf
> I am running Mandrake7.2 with a compiled kernel 2.2.17
>
> What could I have left out?
>
> Help
>
> Thanks
OK
Well, scd0 and sr0 are the same....
kudzu may have thrown in a bad link
cat /etc/fstab
dmesg
ls -l /dev/cdrom*
and we can figure what is happening.
Civileme
>
> John Luttrell irc.sparkhaven.com
> #linux
> President ICQ UIN: 92463110
> CLlug - Clarksville Linux Users Group Clarksville, TN
