Problem with IDE-CDRW drive

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Pavel Rozenboim wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Igor Gorbounov [mailto:igorbounov at voronezh.serw.ru]
> > Sent: Mon, July 28, 2003 12:57 PM
> > To: rhl-beta-list at redhat.com
> > Subject: Problem with IDE-CDRW drive
> > 
> > 
> > Under RH-9.093 can't use anymore the IDE CD-RW drive.
> > Under RH-9 it worked fine. And now:
> > 
> > "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> >         or too many mounted file systems
> >         (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
> >         ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)"
> > 
> > /dev/hdc is recognised during Linux startup.
> > "hdc=ide-scsi" exists in grub.conf.
> > So what became wrong?
> 
> Where link /dev/cdrom points to? It should point to something like
> /dev/scdX. Usually kudzu sets it up automatically.

based on a previous thread, is there any compelling reason to 
use SCSI emulation for an ATAPI CD-RW any more, given that
cdrecord can handle such devices directly?

rday