Re: cdrom mount problem on g4

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

Thanks Vincent ;)

On (28/12/03 12:04), Vincent Bernat wrote:
> OoO  En cette fin de  matinée radieuse  du  dimanche 28 décembre 2003,
> vers 11:47, Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> disait:
> 
> > I tried that:
> > mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device
> 
> What is the ouput of "cat /proc/scsi/scsi" ?
$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices: none
Which sounds though scsi support is compiled, it's not being used?
> 
> > I did wonder whether  I had to link hdc  to scd0 in some way because
> > dmesg confirms that the cdrom is at hdc?
> 
> Without using ide-scsi, your CD  ROM would be  hdc, however, since you
> seem to use ide-scsi, an additional layer make it  available as a SCSI
> device  (as /dev/scd0). Then, most   operations on the original device
> hdc will fail.
> 
> You may want to modprobe sr_mod too (modprobe sr_mod) and retest.

$ sudo modprobe sr_mod
modprobe: Can't locate module sr_mod

I'm not sure what what this means ... is there something I need to
compile in?

Regards

Clive

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