Re: Can not acces ide cdrom
On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 00:59, you wrote:
> Hey Bob, a Re: Bob?
>
> I just went through this recently, so I hope I remember this correctly: the
> device you want to operate as a CDROM needs to point to the SCSI device.
>
> In /dev/
> make /dev/CDROM a symlink to scd0
>
It already is indirectly, ie /dev/cdrom symlinks to /dev/cdrom0 which
symlinks to /dev/scd0. Reading from the scsi device is ok. It is the
ide device that got lost.
What I'm not clear on is whether I need to have the /dev/cdrom1
linked to /dev/sc1 as it now is or /dev/hdb as it is ide.
Cheers
bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bob parker [mailto:bob_parker@dodo.com.au]
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2002 7:32 AM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Can not acces ide cdrom
>
>
> 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
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