newbie: mounting Mitsumi cdrom problems
My goal is to get dselect to recognize my cdrom drive so that I can
install applications.
After booting the OS & logging on as /, I enter dselect. I choose [0.
Access] and select multicd. The cd is in the drive. System responds:
>I see that /dev/cdrom exists and is a block device. Insert the CD-ROM and
enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]:
So I accept the default. System doesn't like that and responds:
>mount: the kernal does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device.
> (maybe 'insmod driver'?)
> unable to mount /dev/cdrom on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt, type iso9660
>Insert the CD-ROM and enter the block device name [/dev/cdrom]:
And from there I'm stuck. I'm a linux newbie; yesterday was my first
attempt to install a system. Since I couldn't get the cdrom working,
I made installation floppies of Debian 2.1 (slink) from the debian.org
site. Installation went smoothly. I even successfully installed the
cdrom driver correctly after divining the port address, DMA, and IRQ
settings from the interface card. When I boot the OS, the boot banner
says:
> mcd=0x320,9: Mitsumi status, type and version: 10 D 2 Double Speed CD ROM
and it also says:
> Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
> scsi: o hosts
> scsi: detected total
More hardware info: Micron 486DX 100, CD is Mitsumi FX001D. The
interface card on the CD says CD-ROM Drive 16BIT I/F Card 74-1881A.
I'm kind of confused about the SCSI failed initialization msg, b/c my
HD is IDE and seems to work fine. The Mitsumi manual says nothing
about the interface card being SCSI or IDE. Did I leave out any other
relevant information? Oh yeah, I'm a Gemini.
thanks in advance for any suggestions.
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