And you would want to check the jumpers on both the hard drive and cdrom
drive, to ensure that one was master and the other slave.
Hang in there Kelvyn, reminds me of a similar difficulty I had not too
long ago that really frustrated me. In my case it was partly because
the device was on it's last legs (eventually being replaced), and also
my own fault - I had moved one of the hard drives and cdrom which
confused the OS - it was looking for the drive on hdc when I had made it
hdd (or similar). The device was detected during booting (references in
dmesg and entries in /proc) but could not read files or install packages
from the desktop.
Also, it is possible that while the cables LOOK like they are properly
seated on the motherboard and back of the device, that they are not
actually pushed right in.
Dont give up.
Roger
Steve Holdoway wrote:
...no cdrom device is seen, then. That's your problem. It could be that
your secondary ide channel is stuffed, or that the cable is, given that
you've tried 2 cd drives it's unlikely to be the drive itself.
You might try plugging it in as a slave device on the primary channel.
Then it *should* appear as /dev/hdb.
Good luck,
Steve
On Mon, September 12, 2005 5:39 am, motivated wrote:
I'm sorry I forgot to reply to your email.
I assume that each is a separate command:
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /mnt
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdd /mnt
df
First 2 return info on using mount, the only thing about cdrom is:
A device can be given a name /dev/hda1 or /dev/cdrom
df returns:
file:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
SIZE USED AVAILABLE USED% MOUNTED ON
5.4G 1.7G 3.5G 33% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1
SIZE USED AVAILABLE USED% MOUNTED ON
3.4G 36M 3.3G 2% /home
Thanks for your time
Regards Kelvyn
