RE: SCSI CD-ROM shunned by system

[Ximenes Zalteca <ximenes netset com>]

On 29-Jul-97 Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
>But the error message I receive is "mount failed: invalid argument" then "I
>could not mount a CD device on /dev/scd0."

Yes, because it expects a SCSI CD drive to be at /dev/scd, not /dev/sr :) You
wouldn't happen to have a plain vanilla CD drive somewhere would you?

>Why is it trying to mount something on /dev/scd0, which doesn't exist?  Why
>not /dev/sr0 or, even better, /dev/sr1?  Can I change this somehow, or what
>can I do?

Em, I think that there is an option to tell it where your CD is located, but
I'm not exactely sure =/ This is definitely what I'd call a bug, however, and
hopefully someone from RH will be kind enough to fix it for you ;)

>about a disk change detected on some device, and asks me to please make sure

It claims that a disk has changed in the CD drive whenever it pokes at it. Even
if it's the same disk that's been in there for hours ;)

>Any and all help will be greatly appreciated.  Even attempts at help would be

You could try copying the CD to your HD and installing from there, if you have
enough space :) You'd need to make a separate partition.

Xi
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