Re: Can not acces ide cdrom

[bob parker <bob_parker@dodo.com.au>]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 02:35, Burkhard Ritter wrote:
> 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
Thanks, that's spot on. I'll change my fstab to what you suggest.
I now have the ide cdrom mountable as /cdrom1 which finally points to
/dev/scd1 but it works anyway. I don't understand that at all I would have
thought that it should have been /dev/hdb ( I only have 1 hard drive ).
Seems as if the file type column in the fstab is what works the magic.

Regards

bob