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From: saugata ghosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 0:01 am
Subject: Re: [ilug-cal] RH9 prob

> Yes /dev/hda is very suspicious:
> 
> can you give the output of
> 
> "dmesg | grep CD"
> 
> that will clear any doubt.

here is the output

hda: COMPAQ CD-ROM SC-148C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

regarding hard-disk there r three 36.4GB in RAID5. 

here is thw swap line from /etc/fstab

/dev/cciss/c0d0p2      swap      swap    defaults        0 0

actually I have installed RH7.2 (as mentioned in previous mails) with out any prob.
but RH9.0 can't be installed bcoz of this cdrom drive location prob.though tested 
Knoppix & LNX-BBC successfully. plz suggest a solution.

> 
> This is my output:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# dmesg | grep CD
> hdb: CRD-8520B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> 
> -Saugata
> 
> 
> --- Manas Laha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > here is the ls -l /dev/cdrom
> > > 
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 21 04:04
> > /dev/cdrom---> /dev/hda
> > > 
> > 
> > /dev/hda _normally_ is a hard disk. If that is
> > indeed so on your 
> > machine, this could be the problem. The exact
> > configuration can be known 
> > by doing a "dmesg | less". On my machine this shows
> > (among many other 
> > things):
> > 
> > hda: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive
> > hdc: ST320413A, ATA DISK drive
> > hdd: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-152A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > 
> > so hda is a hard disk and the CD-ROM deive is hdd.
> > To change the link 
> > for /dev/cdrom, login as root then
> > 
> > cd /dev ; ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
> > 
> > assuming the CD-ROM drive is hdd.
> > 
> > - Manas Laha
> > 
> > 
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