Re: CDROM CDRW Not Accessible

[Alan Harding <alanh flashmail com>]

On Thu, 2002-12-26 at 02:57, Mike Burger wrote:
> If he's using the ide-scsi module, it would, without any help, set up both 
> drives as scd0 and scd1...the cdrw, being the master, would no doubt be 
> scd0, with the cdrom identified as scd1.
> 
> On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Michael Fratoni wrote:
> 
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> > On Wednesday 25 December 2002 03:57 pm, Mike Burger wrote:
> > > He's already noted that he's put the CDRW as secondary master, and the
> > > CDROM as secondary slave.  Those are, by definition, /dev/hdc
> > > and/dev/hdd, respectively.
> > 
> > Unless he is using scsi emulation for the CDRW, that changes things. In 
> > that case, there is no device at /dev/hdc.
> > 
> > I have the same setup, cdrom as secondary slave, CDRW as secondary master.
> > 
> > [mfratoni paradox mfratoni]$ grep cdrom /etc/fstab
> > /dev/cdrom1  /mnt/cdrom1  iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro,user,unhide 0 0
> > /dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom     iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro,user,unhide 0 0
> > 
> > $ ll /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom1
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root  8 Jan  1  2002 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdd
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root  9 Oct  5 00:07 /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/scd0
> > 
> > The CDRW is probably accessable as /dev/scd0
> >


Maybe I shouldve been more clear, that was the reason I asked for the
dmesg output. Sorry, but it was Xmas day and i had been "getting into
the spirit"  :)

I have a CD and and a CD-RW in my own machine here and the CDRW appears
as scd0. If this is the case then the mount coammand will fail


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