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   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

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