Re: My CD-ROM ain't workin'
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Al Matthews wrote:
> Hi there, I'm real new to Debian (Linux also), and I can't get Linux to
> reconize my CD-ROM as a block device. I try mounting it on the command
> line by typing in "mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cd driver /cdrom".
This isn't gonna work.
You need to figure out how your CDROM is attached to the system: is it on
a SoundBlaster card, an IDE card, or a SCSI card? In the latter two
cases, its correct entry would be
/dev/hda (or hdb) for an IDE drive where the letter (a,b,c) is determined
like this: If it's the master drive on the first channel, it's hda. If
it's the slave on the first channel, it's hdb. If it's the master on
the second, it's hdc, etc....
/dev/scd0 (or scd1, scd2, etc.) where the number is (I beleive) the
number of the drive on the scsi chain.
Usually the /dev/cdrom entry is a symlink (made via ln -s) to the correct
ide/scsi drive.
So then once you've figured out all that info, you mount it (assuming the
directory /cdrom exists) with:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom
where you can replace /dev/hda with the appropriate /dev entry.
If this is confusing, please email for clarification.
Will
harpo@udel.edu
lowe@cis.udel.edu
http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/
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