[NTLUG:Discuss] mounting my cdrom revisited

[falconjetflyer@netscape.net]

Yes I understand the device naming in linux.   hdb is my CDROM and hdc is my CD/RW.   The problem as I have deducted is that my system is seeing both as a scsi device.  I have tried to mount all the scsi devices I know including scd0, 1, 2, ect, sr0, 1, 2, ect and sg0, 1, 2, ect.  Each gives me a message like unknown device, this is not a block device or does not exist.

The problem may well be in my fstab line.   I am going to # it out and ad one that you suggested and see what that does.   All this setup was done automatically by Mandrake's Hardrake.   Hardrake shows my 2 cdroms both as 
ide and scsi.   that's weird.    
???????????????Garion

Fred James <fredjame at concentric.net> wrote:

>And I had just read about that ... scd0 in this case ... in conjunction 
>with the cdrom having to be treated like a SCSI device for CD-RW to 
>work.  Sorry, my bad.
>
>Ken Frazer wrote:
>
>> Fred,
>> /dev/hdb means second IDE device on the first IDE controller, which 
>> may well be a CDROM.  Do an ls -l on /dev/cdrom and, if it is an ATAPI 
>> cdrom, you will see that it is soft linked to an hd? device of some sort.
>>
>> At 07:10 PM 10/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>> /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>> is how the line reads in my /etc/fstab (RH 7.2).  Since this stuff 
>>> varies from system to system, check your man(ual) pages for "fstab" - 
>>> but my first thought would be that your fstab cdrom entry is 
>>> incorrect, starting with the device (first entry) that your are 
>>> trying to mount. "/dev/hdb" means second hard disk in everything I've 
>>> read.
>>>
>>> falconjetflyer at netscape.net wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>   The following command is from my /etc/fstab
>>>>
>>>>   /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto 
>>>> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
>>>>
>>>>   Does it mean that my cdrom is automounted?
>>>>   If so, should i see a cdrom's contents in nautilus?
>>>>   I don't.
>>>>   And it won't allow me to mount manually.
>>>>   I am using mandrake 8.1
>>>>   My floppy has basically the same command and it mounts OK.
>>>>   ? ? ? ? ?   Garion
>>>>
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