[NTLUG:Discuss] mounting my cdrom revisited

[Chris Cox]

falconjetflyer at netscape.net wrote:
> 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

Verify that it sees them as SCSI....

# cdrecord -scanbus

and/or

# cat /proc/scsi

The scsi devices (if these are the only ones) will
be something like /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1.

If you want to make a copy from your existing CD to the
CD-RW unit, you'll use something like:

# cdrecord dev=0,1,0 speed=40 -v -driveropts=burnproof -isosize /dev/sr0

(This assumes that /dev/sr0 is the CDROM drive and
dev=0,1,0 corresponds to the CDRW, the cdrecord -scanbus
command will show the dev= entry to use)

HTH,
Chris