Re: cd reading tip (2.4.3 )
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 01:46:21AM -0700, patrick q wrote:
>
> I was trying to read one of my cdrom archives on a 2.4.3 machine with a
> cheap-ass generic ide/ATAPI cdrom drive, but all it could read was the
> lost+found directory...
If you have very old ATAPI drive, they may not read CD-R or CD-RW. But
your situation looks like misconfigured system.
> I could read the cd with other drives, so it wasn't a coaster.
Good.
> On a whim, I tried loading the scsi emulation drivers scsi_mod.o, sg.o,
> ide-cd.o and mounted the drive as /dev/scd0 and could now read the disk
> just fine!
You mean ide-scsi.o This means your cd-drive is good.
> So it looks like it is enough to just call an ide-drive a scsi drive to
> make it more reliable :-)
No, that's unlikely. Did you enable ide-scsi on the drive while trying
to read as somethink like /dev/hdc? /etc/fstab, /etc/lilo, /etc/modules
needs to be checked...
(At lease I did similar s--t.)
Good luck.
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