List I am having continual problems with cdroms. I have the following
scsi id 4 42x scsi cdrom scsi id 5 Yamaha 6x4x16 cdwriter only one that seems to work all the time scsi id 6 scsi dat 4mm tape drive not a problem ow. hdc is a 52x ide cdrom drive there on bootup but do anything and it disappears or hangs system I have set kernal line to hdc=ide-scsi, verify below. I get 3 icons on the desktop and most of the time they say they are mounted, cd drive & cdwriter. I am not getting a stable cdrom operation all the time. Please correct me if I am wrong, I know you guys will <g> with pleasure. The system boots up and sees the true scsi as scd? and the ide as hd?. Thus the scd0 & scd1 for my scsi cdrom drives, there are no scsi hard drives in this system, & the ide-scsi as sr0. A mout point in /auto should be for /dev/cdrom -> sr0 as cdrom, a second for /dev/cdwriter -> /dev/scd0 as /auto/cdwriter, & /dev/cddrive 2 -> /dev/scd1 as /auto/cdrom2. What is going wrong, or do I need to provide more info. I have read the sxs @linux.nf. not quite sure here. hda is a 60g harddrive ide ile setups: [root@RSivernell rick]# ll /dev/ta* | more lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 21 03:23 /dev/tape -> st0 [root@RSivernell rick]# ll /dev/cd* | more lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 10 15:49 /dev/cdrom -> sr1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jan 12 10:55 /dev/cdrom2 -> /dev/scd1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Dec 21 03:01 /dev/cdu31a -> sonycd brw-rw-r-- 1 root disk 24, 0 Oct 11 13:07 /dev/cdu535 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 12 10:59 /dev/cdwriter -> sr0 [root@RSivernell rick]# ll /dev/sc* | more brw-rw-r-- 1 rick disk 11, 0 Oct 11 13:07 /dev/scd0 brw-rw-r-- 1 root disk 11, 1 Oct 11 13:07 /dev/scd1 [root@RSivernell rick]# ll /dev/sr* | more brw------- 1 rick root 11, 0 Oct 11 13:07 /dev/sr0 brw------- 1 rick disk 11, 1 Oct 11 13:07 /dev/sr1 [root@RSivernell rick]# cat /etc/fstab devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/cdwriter /mnt/sr0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/scd1 is09660 ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0 none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /opt reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda3 /home reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda13 /backup ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda12 /archive reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda11 /projects reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda10 /import_export reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hda14 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /u01 reiserfs user 0 0 /dev/hda7 /u02 reiserfs user 0 0 /dev/hda8 /u03 reiserfs user 0 0 /dev/hda9 /uo4 reiserfs user 0 0 [root@RSivernell rick]# cat /etc/mtab /dev/hda1 / reiserfs rw 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /proc /proc proc rw 0 0 none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /opt reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda3 /home reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda2 /boot ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda13 /backup ext2 rw 0 0 /dev/hda12 /archive reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda11 /projects reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda10 /import_export reiserfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda6 /u01 reiserfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda7 /u02 reiserfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda8 /u03 reiserfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 /dev/hda9 /uo4 reiserfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0 RSivernell:(pid503) /auto nfs intr,rw,port=1023,timeo=8,retrans=110,indirect,map=/etc/am.d/localdev,dev=000000 08 0 0 [root@RSivernell rick]# cat /boot/grub/menu.lst # # /boot/grub/menu.lst - generated by Lizard # # options timeout = 5 splashscreen = (hd0,1)/boot/message.col31 default = 0 title = Linux root = (hd0,1) kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-modular vga=274 quiet root=/dev/hda1 hdc=ide-scsi initrd = /boot/initrd-2.4.9.gz cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1 Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _ )\ ^ ^ In Linux we trust! _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users