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Re: Accessinf devices after install...



At 05:23 PM 5/6/2000 -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 08:39:44PM +0100, Steven Satelle wrote:
> Look in your /etc/dev for /cdrom and mount using that, linux sees it as a
> cdrom not a hd (i think)

No. /dev/cdrom is just a symlink to /dev/hd?.  I'm guessing that the
cdrom is not connected to the slave of the first ide controller
(/dev/hdb), but rather is the master of the second ide controller,
/dev/hdc.  That's a pretty common configuration. You might check where
your BIOS says it's connected (F2 or something for SETUP at boot).

I'm assuming this isn't a CD-RW (in which case you need ide-scsi support
in the kernel) and isn't a SCSI device.


No, it's a regular 36x CR-ROM made by Digital Research Technologies. I had
tried all of the suggestion so far - so decided to go for broke and try
/dev/hdX for all values of X ;-0

...well it's apparently /dev/hdd  !!!!!

Thanks for all the suggestions. This is THE BEST "support" mailing list I've
seen so far - and it's *free*.

Whoever said "you only get what you pay for"?


Kevin Smith                             
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