Steve Fisher wrote: > (tried mounting /dev/scd0 by hand as well and was told that it > is not a valid block device) but doing ls -l shows brw-rw---- > 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/scd0 - telling me > that this _is_ a block device...though why it is not valid, > I have no idea.
I don't know how much more info I can add other than this: When the first IDE CDRW device is mentioned in an 'hdx=ide-scsi' kernel command line, its "SCSI generic" interface (used by cdrecord and some cd rippers) will be at /dev/sg0, with a (raw?) counterpart at /dev/sr0, while it should be generally available and mountable from /dev/scd0. (My fstab, e.g., mounts /dev/scd0 to /cdrom.) The sr0 and scd0 nodes seem to work equally well as devices in a mount command, given a valid and recognized filesystem. The only time I get a "xxx is not a valid block device" on a removable device I know full well is there, is when there's no media in it. (Mount /dev/fd0 w/o floppy gives this error.) With a cdrw drive, this can also mean it's merely an unreadable filesystem, in which case I'd suggest trying it on a separate PC whose CD drive you _know_ works. Hope this helps, Tim _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
