Re: Newbie question on cdrom..

[Jacob Bresciani <jbresc@ece.ualberta.ca>]

I assume your running scsi emulation on hdc. this would change it from 
hdc to sr0

ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom

should fix it.

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Jacob Bresciani
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On 13-May-04, at 3:32 PM, Ishwar Rattan wrote:

> Another one.
>
> Debian with 2.6.5-kernel (from Knoppix-3.4, distrubution testing?).
>
> The entry in /etc/fstab is:
>
> 	/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
>
> so no entry for /dev/cdrom (?).
>
> 1. /dev/dvd is a link to /dev/cdrom
> 2. no /dev/cdrom entry
> 3. cdrom is detected as hdc, also seen as sr0 (in dmesg)
> 4. /mnt/cdrom is link to /mnt/auto/cdrom
>    (no entries /mnt/auto at all)
> 5. /dev/sr0 is link to /dev/scd0
> 6. /dev/sdc0 does exist!
>
> Is there no concept like supermount (a la Mandrake)?
>
> So, to access cdrom it has to be mounted (as su) used and dismounted?
>     (#mount /dev/scd0 /mnt
>      #umount /mnt
> 	do seem to work)
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -ishwar
>
>
>
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