Re: How to mount CDROM and CDRW?

[Russell <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>]

Nicos Gollan wrote:
> On Friday 14 February 2003 19:09, Carlos Jiménez wrote:
>
> > I just installed Debian woody and i've had problems to mount the CDROM
> > (hdb) and the CDRW (hdd). In the fstab file appears the following:
> > /dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0
> > Does it mean that CDROM is mounted? Shouldn't the mount point be in /mnt/?
> > And if it wasn't mounted, how do i mount it?
>
>
> You mount it with 'mount /cdrom'. What this line does is:
>
>  - mount the device /dev/cdrom (should be a link to /dev/hdb)
>  - to /cdrom
>  - with filesystem type iso9660
>  - read-only, mountable by any user, not automatically at boot
>
> If you want to access the second drive in a similar way, just add another line 
> like this one with /dev/hdd as the device and another mountpoint (perhaps 
> /cdrom2 or /mnt/cdrw or whatever, just remember to create the directory).

To make the CDRW writeable, you should read the CD writer how-tos, and maybe
a scsi how-to. ATAPI CD writers need ide-scsi and a couple of other things
installed, because ATAPI is scsi commands over an ATA(IDE) bus.