Re: devices

[Dr Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 18:21, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Dr Gavin Seddon(gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk) is reported to have said:
> > Hi, 
> > Ihave 2 devices that I cannot get working.
> 
> "Can not get working" is very vague.  You must be getting some error
> message which would assist someone in helping you.
> 
> > 
> > a.  A scsi tape drive.  Here I have installed the mt-st kernel patch and
> > made a ln -s between /dev/sto anmount: /dev/st0 is not a block devicev/tape.
>                               ^ Typo? do you mean st0?
> What error message do you get when you try to mount it?

When I try to mount it

mount: /dev/st0 is not a block device
> 
> > 
> > b.  A cdrw, here I have installed the scsi emulation patch and added an
> > append line to my lilo.conf.
> 
> Nowhere near enough info here to say.
> 
> What does the append line look like?
> Did you add the drive to /etc/fstab? 
> does cdrecord find it?
> etc, etc.
> The line is
append="hdc=ide-scsi"


No i did not add anything to fstab.  Don't know what to add.
cdrecord -scanbus finds nothing.
Yes sto was a typo should be st0


> > 
> > I suspect the 2 probs may be linked.  Can someone help pls?
> Not without much more info.
> 
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>         The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
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Dr Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk>
University of Manchester