Re: devices

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Wayne Topa(brittman@capital.net) is reported to have said:
> Dr Gavin Seddon(gavin.m.seddon@man.ac.uk) is reported to have said:
> > 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
> 
> Sorry, I haven't had a tape installed here in 6-7 years, so just can't
> remember enough to be of help.  Suggest doing a google search for a
> tape howto.
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 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"
> 
> Do a google search for the CDROM-HOWTO.pdf.

The above might be of help but This one is the one I should had
mentioned.

CD-Writing-HOWTO.pdf

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