[olug] mounting my cd-rom

[Eric Penne]

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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