BILL wrote:
> , i "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
>
> > BILL wrote:
> >
> > > Hi ,
> > > I'm having the same problem (this may be a long letter),I have two CD players, a
> > > read only and a burnnerRW(Iomega Zip cd r+w),and over the las three month or so
> > > I have at different times had both working,but constantly have had to reinstall
> > > for one reason or another,and have ,due to bad short term memory,forgotten what
> > > I did to get them to work in the first place. This last time I re connected my
> > > IDE controls ,and changed the master/slave settings on both,since this helped
> > > once before ,only this time it still refused to let me use my burnner,and just
> > > followed my read only over to /mnt/cdrom2,so I powered down and reconnected them
> > > as they where originally set up and low and behold,now I can only access my
> > > burnner and not my readonly.
> > > Phew!! Now according to your above letter IO checked mtab,which I was unclear
> > > of its purpose in the scheme of things,and yes i only have one entry there at
> > > this moment ,that being the cd burner.while fstab lists both,
> >
> > That tells me right there that your CD-ROM is not being mounted. It's in the fstab,
> > so the system tries to mount it, but the mount fails.
> >
> > > when I attrempt to use the readonly KFM pops up with a white screen and a
> > > "documents done" line at the bottom of the border,but no image or info from cd.
> >
> > And this is yet more evidence that it has not been mounted properly -- KFM is
> > showing the contents of the mount point (i.e., nothing =) ) because the drive
> > hasn't actually been mounted.
> >
> > > I have also checked dmesg and I find this : scsi0:SCSI host
> > >
> > > adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI device
> > > scsi:1 host
> > > vender:Hitachi model:CDR-8130 REV.0021
> > > type:CDROM ANSI SCSI rev:02
> > > detected:scsi cdrom sr0 at channel0,id 0 lun0 scsi 0
> > > sr0:scsi 3-mm2 drive:8x/16xcd rw xa /form 2 cdda tray
> >
> > So your CD-R is being detected properly,
> >
> > > ide-scsi:hdb unsupported command in request queue (0)
> > > end_request:I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb),sector 0
> > > cdrom:opened failed
> >
> > and your CD-ROM is not.
> >
> > > it then repeats the last two lines,
> > > the only other entry referring to the cdrom is a line at the top reading: ide
> > > setup:hdb=scsi
> > > I also just noticed that the read only cdrom has an entry of "rw"
> > > sr0:scsi 3-mm2 drive:8x/16xcd rw xa /form 2 cdda tray see? what is that
> > > about ,is it a mistake or just normal,or is my cdrom read only a read and write
> > > wannabe?
> >
> > What it looks like to *me* right now is that you've tried to configure your CD-ROM
> > as a CD-R. You've got it set to use SCSI emulation, and for CD-ROMs this generally
> > isn't necessary. What I would like to know is what you did to make your CD-R work,
> > because I suspect you also did this for your CD-ROM (and you should not have).
> >
> > We'll need to undo this.
> >
> > If it says you've got a rw device, then... hmn... it's mis-identifying it (again, I
> > think that's because you've got it using SCSI emulation).
> >
> > What's in your fstab? (please *attach* it, don' t paraphrase). Is this an existing
> > kernel, or have you compiled one?
> >
> > -Stephen-
>
> OK.I have since reconfigured the CD'S bacvk to where they had started,...cd read only
> on hdb,cd r+w on hdb,
> my "dmesg reads fine with the exception of the last few lines which go as
> follows(can't seem to cut and paste for some reason)(bill @localhost bill)$ tepping
>03
>
> bash: tepping:command not found
> (bill@localhost bill) $ Checking 386/387 coupling...OK,FPU usingexception 16 error
> reporting
> bash:Checking:command not found
>
> it repeats this last paragraph ,don't know if this means anything but first time I
> got that one.
>
> In regard to fstab ,thats another story now,is fstab supposed to make duplicate files
> everytime you make a change to it?I now have four different fstab
> files,fstab,fstab-,fstab--,fsatb---
> fstab reads: /dev/cdrom /mnt/ cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2
> 0 0
> fstab- reads : /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd0 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
> fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
> fstab-- reads the same as fstab-
> and fstab--- reads:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
> fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
>
> So right now I have use of cdrom read only,which is working normally,cdrom2 just gets
> a "can not list directory contents file :/mntcdrom2"
>
> Also mtab list as this:/mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom
> /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
> rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2
> There is also this line just above these entries in mtab which reads as : none
> /dev/pts devpts rw,mode 0620 0 0
> so that's it so far , thanks for your response ,this thing is killing me ,taking up
> more time than I care to think aboutBut it's been fun
Sorry I missed this bit of info earoier in regards to what I did to get my cd-r
working :
I powered down,disconnected my power cord
I then took the IDE control "tape"connector from the cd -r and replaced it with the
tape for the cd r+w
and vias versa, I then reconnected the power cord and booted up the system
this left me oddly enough with the cd-r on hdc ,and working and the cd r+w on hdb not
working
I then re powered down and reversed all to their original positions and powered up
again,only to find this time that the cd r+w was now working and the cdr was not.I have
since set all back to where they were at the begining .as stated in my last msg.leaving
me with hdb having the cd-r in working order and hdc having the cd-r+w not,as stated
beforedmesg and all fstab readings are as stated earlier at this point
