[olug] mounting my cd-rom

[mesc]

That worked thank you.I apologize for not having read the cd-writing-HOWTO
but  I just reinstalled this this morning and I haven't unpacked  my HOWTO
tarball yet (my distro didn't come with HOWTOs)Thanks again though.

                Gary Martin

Eric Penne wrote:

> do an lsmod to see what modules are loaded unless you compiled scsi
> emulation into the kernel.
>
> if ide-scsi.o is not listed and you did not compile it into the kernel
> and you put hdd=ide-scsi into lilo or from the LILO prompt then try
>
> modprobe ide-scsi
>
> then try to mount /dev/sr0 or something like that.  Much of this is
> explained in the CDRW HOWTO.
>
> Eric
>
> --- mesc <mescie at home.com> wrote:
> > My cd-rw is mounted primary/slave just like my cd-rom  was.I just
> > disconnected the ribbon cable from that to  the cd-rw I installed
> > making my
> > cd-rom inactive.This is  how  linux detects the  cd-rw>>Jan 30
> > 10:03:36
> > omhan1 kernel: hdd: CD-W54E, ATAPI CDROM drive..so it doesn't detect
> > it  as
> > a cd-rw drive so I don't think it requires SCSI emulation.And with
> > this line
> > >>/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 in
> > /etc/fstab I get  this error when I try to moumt the cd-rw>>
> > mount: /dev/hdd is not a valid block device.Yet farther down in
> > /var/log/messages it says this>>
> > Jan 30 10:03:36 omhan1 kernel: ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi....so now I'm
> > confused as to wher it needs SCSI emulatin or  not or if I can just
> > pass the
> > hdd=ide-scsi command to the kernel at  the lilo prompt?Then  to  make
> > matters worse this is in /var/log/messages>>Jan 30 10:03:18 omhan1
> > isapnp:
> > AZT3011/-1[0]{IDE CDROM DISABLED  }: Port 0x220; --- Enabled OK
> > .......does
> > this mean the drive was disabled then??I've been changing the cd-rom
> > line in
> > /etc/fstab and the most promising response was when I changed the
> > /dev to
> > /dev/hdc1 and then tried to mount it and I got  "You must specify a
> > filesystem" I then used the -t switch with both vfat and ext2 whch
> > resulted
> > in this error "Bad line in /etc/fstab"Does this help you all or did I
> > thouroghly confuse you? :)
> >
> >                 Gary Martin
> >
> > you might change the /etc/fstab from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hd_,
> > replacing _
> > with the appropriate letter for the drive. Is the new cdrw drive set
> > to
> > the same master/slave setting as the old drive?
> >
> > >
> > > mesc wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I get this error message when trying to mount my cd-rom with the
> > mount
> > > > /mnt/cdrom command>>
> > > > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device......I had a
> > regular
> > > > cd-rom on my computer but I just installed a cd-rw.Linux sees it
> > at
> > > > bootup and the line corresponing to the cd-rom in /etc/fstab
> > worked for
> > > > my old cd-rom so I'm assuming /etc/fstab  is ok.Any ideas what
> > may be
> > > > wrong?
> > > >
> > > >                 Thank you,Gary Martin
> > > >
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