Re: Can not acces ide cdrom

[Burkhard Ritter <burkhard@sportident.de>]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, bob parker wrote:

> I am using Debian 3.0.0. 
> I installed it with a 2.2.20 kernel which did not have scsi support. 
> I later installed the 2.4.18 kernel and got support for my scsi cd burner but
> I have lost ability to read my ide cdrom.
> 
> Here is my fstab
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>               <dump>  <pass>
> /dev/hda8       /               ext2    errors=remount-ro       0       1
> /dev/hda7       none            swap    sw                      0       0
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults                0       0
> /dev/fd0        /floppy         auto    user,noauto             0       0
> /dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0
> 
> My cdrom mount points
> debian:/home/bob# ls -l /cdrom*/
> /cdrom/:
> total 0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            7 Sep 28 23:35 cdrom0 -> /cdrom0
> /cdrom0/:
> total 0
> /cdrom1/:
> total 0
> 
> my /dev/cdroms
> debian:/home/bob# ls -l /dev/cdrom*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Sep 28 23:35 /dev/cdrom -> 
> /dev/cdrom0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Sep 28 23:35 /dev/cdrom0 -> 
> /dev/scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Sep 28 23:35 /dev/cdrom1 -> 
> /dev/scd1
> 
> How do I regain access to my ide cdrom?
> Thanks
> bob

i assume you want to have access to both (cdrom and cdrw). you would
probably want to create a directory /cdrw. then rm /dev/cdrom, ln -s
/dev/cdrom /dev/hdb (or whatever your cdrom drive is), ln -s /dev/cdrw
/dev/scd0 and add the follwing to your fstab:
/dev/cdrw       /cdrw           iso9660 ro,user,noauto      0   0

you could then access your ide cdrom by doing mount /cdrom and your cd
burner by mount /cdrw.

hope that helps.

burkhard