On Mon, 03 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm running version 7.02 (air) and can read from my ordinary CD-Rom
> but not from my 2nd CD-Rom/Burner. Its not a permissions problem and
> the second CD-Rom burns CD's OK. Its not a major issue but I do prefer
> to use my 2nd CD-Rom as its less noisy and runs more smoothly. For
> some reason the first CD-Rom sounds unbalanced. The noisy CD problem
> can't be solved and happens also in Windows so I'm not looking for an
> answer to that.
>
> Ps. I get the message:-
>
> "Could not list directory contents"
> file;/mnt/cdrom2/
>
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Adriaan
Adriaan,
This is the same problem I had and someone sent me to a web page that described
the fix for it. I can't remember the url, but I can tell you how to solve the
problem. It seems that linux for whatever reason simulates scsi interface on
these cd-rw drives ( maybe not all of them, not sure about that ). What
happens is during the install a bad desktop link is made for the cd-rw drive.
Assuming you have no scsi devices in your system, open a terminal window and
log in as root and change to your /dev directory. Then issue these 2 commands.
rm cdrom2 (removes the bad symlink)
ln -s /dev/scd0 cdrom2 (makes a new symlink to your emulated scsi device named
cdrom2)
You should then be able to access cdrom2 just like you do cdrom.
It certainly worked for me. I've reinstalled several times and had to do this
each time.
Roland
