RE: success for the mitsumi cdrom painintheneck guy

[Bryan Scaringe <Bryan.Scaringe@computer.org>]

Sorry I didn't post sooner.  I'm trying to get caught up with my mail.
You didn't need to set the jumpers back to their defaults.  you could
have them set to anything.  you just need to know what they're set to.
I have my mcd at 0x340, IRQ 10.  In my /etc/modutils/modules I added the
line:
        options mcd mcd=0x340,11
and added the following line to the end of /etc/modules:
        mcd
So that the mcd module is loaded on system startup.

Optional:
If the old mcd is the only (or primary) CDROM drive in youyr system,
do the following:
        cd /dev
        ln -s mcd cdrom
This will create a sym-link from the mcd device file called cdrom.
This way, you won't have to thing in terms of "mcd", but just
in the more generic "cdrom".  You can think of the symlink as
an "alias" for the mcd file.



As for mounting the CDROM, you have two ways to do this:
The Pain-in-the-ass-way:
        mount -t iso9660 /dev/mcd /cdrom
This tells mount that the filesystem type is iso9660 (all cdroms
use this filesystem), the device you want to mount is /dev/mcd
(if you did the optional step above, you can use /dev/cdrom instead),
and you want to mount the filesystem under /cdrom. 

The SMART way:
add the following line to the end of your /etc/fstab file.
 /dev/mcd  /cdrom      iso9660  defaults,noauto  0  0
Again, if you did the optional step above, you can substitute /dev/cdrom for
/dev/mcd.

now, when you want to mount the filesystem (cdrom), just say:
mount /dev/mcd  (or substiuture /dev/cdrom)
 -or-
mount /cdrom

mount will look in the fstab file for the appropriate entry to
get filesystem type, and whatever else it needs.  Saves some typing.


Hope this helps,
        Bryan
 






 


On 17-Oct-99 jh wrote:
> I have good personal news. I got the kernel to accept my cdrom module for
> my old mitsumi. I pulled the interface card and discovered that nothing
> seemed to be set to default. I tried changing the I/O jumper to default and
> the IRQ switches to default and modconf recognized the first time. I am
> jubilant.
> 
> I am now trying to learn how to mount the cdrom.
> 
> Thanks for everyone's assistance!
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
> 
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