cant mount drive

Thornton thornton at cierragroup.com
Wed Oct 13 01:31:51 UTC 2004



> > cat /proc/ide/hdc/* > hdc.info
> > -bash: hdc.info: No such file or directory
> > 
> 
> Did you try the command exactly as it is this little '>' between the
> '*' and hdc.info is very crutial. It tells bash to redirect all the
> output of the 'cat' command to the file ./hdc.info (where './' means
> your current directory). So after running the command as root this
> file should be created!
Yes I copy and pasted it just as you wrote it.

tried it again and same thing
> 
> > so i went into proc/ide/hdc and these were the contents
> > 
> > capacity  driver  identify  media  model  settings
> > 
> 
> I want the contents of those files. So either you do a manual 'cat
> capacity' and 'cat identify' can 'cat media' and 'cat model' etc etc
> etc or you give the above command
> that will expand to exactly that!
okay

[root at obsidian hdc]# cat /proc/ide/hdc/*
563096
ide-cdrom version 4.61
85c0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 312e
3033 2020 2020 414f 5045 4e20 2020 4344
2d52 5720 4352 5735 3233 3220 2020 2020
312e 3033 2032 3030 3331 3031 3320 0000
0000 0f00 0000 0200 0200 0006 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0007 0007
0003 0078 0078 00f0 0078 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0020 0013 4218 4000 4000 4218 0000 4000
0407 0000 0000 0000 0000 600f 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
cdrom
AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013
name                    value           min             max            
mode
----                    -----           ---             ---            
----
current_speed           66              0               70             
rw
dsc_overlap             0               0               1              
rw
ide-scsi                0               0               1              
rw
init_speed              12              0               70             
rw
io_32bit                1               0               3              
rw
keepsettings            0               0               1              
rw
nice1                   1               0               1              
rw
number                  2               0               3              
rw
pio_mode                write-only      0               255            
w
unmaskirq               1               0               1              
rw
using_dma               1               0               1              
rw
[root at obsidian hdc]# cat /proc/ide/hdc/* > hdc.info
-bash: hdc.info: No such file or directory
[root at obsidian hdc]# ls
capacity  driver  identify  media  model  settings
[root at obsidian hdc]# cat capacity
563096
[root at obsidian hdc]# cat driver
ide-cdrom version 4.61
[root at obsidian hdc]# cat identify
85c0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 312e
3033 2020 2020 414f 5045 4e20 2020 4344
2d52 5720 4352 5735 3233 3220 2020 2020
312e 3033 2032 3030 3331 3031 3320 0000
0000 0f00 0000 0200 0200 0006 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0007 0007
0003 0078 0078 00f0 0078 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0020 0013 4218 4000 4000 4218 0000 4000
0407 0000 0000 0000 0000 600f 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
[root at obsidian hdc]# cat media
cdrom
[root at obsidian hdc]# cat model
AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013
[root at obsidian hdc]# cat settings
name                    value           min             max            
mode
----                    -----           ---             ---            
----
current_speed           66              0               70             
rw
dsc_overlap             0               0               1              
rw
ide-scsi                0               0               1              
rw
init_speed              12              0               70             
rw
io_32bit                1               0               3              
rw
keepsettings            0               0               1              
rw
nice1                   1               0               1              
rw
number                  2               0               3              
rw
pio_mode                write-only      0               255            
w
unmaskirq               1               0               1              
rw
using_dma               1               0               1              
rw


> 
> So to recapitulate if your drive is internal what to you have on USB?
> Apparently the 'sg' module and 'scsi_mod' treat that something as a
> SCSI storage device.
the only thing on USB I have is a CF Card Reader.

> So after posting the above post the result of 
> 
> ls -l /dev/cdrom
> 
> so I can see where your /dev/cdrom points to.

ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 Jun 17 22:10 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

thanks




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