Re: prob mounting cdrom,
Thanks. Changing the link to /dev/sr0 fixed the problem.
Chris
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 12:58:11PM -0500, Chris Nestrud wrote:
> > Hello list. I'm having a
> > problem mounting my cdrom. I've configured the kernel to treat it
> > as a scsi device, so
> > cdrecord will work, and cdrecord does indeed work and successfully burn
> > cd's. However, when I try to mount, here's what I get.
> > pfui:/# mount cdrom
> > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> > or too many mounted file systems
> [snip]
>
> /dev/cdrom, which is what you're trying to mount, is not an actual
> device--instead, it's an easy-to-remember symlink to hdd (which means
> "slave drive on seconday IDE port"). I assume that's where your CDROM
> drive is, and that the symlink was set up for you automatically during
> installation--that's typical.
>
> When you put the drive under SCSI emulation though, you need to use a
> SCSI device for it instead of the IDE device. Assuming that's your only
> SCSI (or SCSI-emulated) CDR(OM) drive, that's most likely /dev/sr0 (maybe
> /dev/scd0 would work too, but sr0 usually works better for me..).
>
> So, you could do one of two things:
>
> 1) Change the /dev/cdrom symlink to point to /dev/sr0 instead of
> /dev/hdd,
>
> OR
>
> 2) Edit /etc/fstab and change /dev/cdrom to /dev/sr0
>
>
> This reminds me of a little issue I'm having with ide-scsi I need to
> post about.. Anyway, I hope that helps.
>
> Tom
>
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