Re: ide-scsi support

[Alisdair McDiarmid <alisdair@letdown.demon.co.uk>]

On Tue, Jun 15, 1999 at 03:11:27PM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
> 
> > > > [root%letdown /home/alisdair] # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw
> > > > mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> > > > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
> > > >        or too many mounted file systems
> > > 
> > > Is it detected as /dev/scd0?
> > > On my system, it's /dev/sr0 
> > 
> > Indeed, it's sort of the same here - however, mounting /dev/sr0
> > gives `not a block device'.
> 
> It's detected as /dev/sr0 and mounting that doesn't work?

Yes, it appears so.

> Do you have this:
> 
> # ls -l /dev/sr0
> br--r--r--   1 root     cdrom     11,   0 Jul 24  1997 /dev/sr0

Ah. That'll be why it doesn't mount - it's not there :)

What do I have to do to create it? MAKEDEV sr does nothing.

Thanks,
-- 
alisdair mcdiarmid
[it looks like we might have made it we might have made it to the end]