Re: devices

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Dr Gavin Seddon(gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk) is reported to have said:
> Hi, 
> Ihave 2 devices that I cannot get working.

"Can not get working" is very vague.  You must be getting some error
message which would assist someone in helping you.

> 
> a.  A scsi tape drive.  Here I have installed the mt-st kernel patch and
> made a ln -s between /dev/sto and /dev/tape.
                              ^ Typo? do you mean st0?
What error message do you get when you try to mount it?

> 
> b.  A cdrw, here I have installed the scsi emulation patch and added an
> append line to my lilo.conf.

Nowhere near enough info here to say.

What does the append line look like?
Did you add the drive to /etc/fstab? 
does cdrecord find it?
etc, etc.

> 
> I suspect the 2 probs may be linked.  Can someone help pls?
Not without much more info.

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