Bob, I'll try to help you. It has been a while since I've burned a CD.
Steps #1, #2, and #3 are fine.
I don't believe the mount command can accept anything short of a real
/DEVice. In other words, you can't use a softlink here--which is why
you got "/dev/cdrecorder:unknown device." Secondly, and for that
reason, you must use a real device (/dev/scd0) in /etc/fstab.
Knowing this, remove /dev/cdrecorder in your /etc/fstab and replace
it with /dev/scd0 since this was your original target. When you're
out of editing fstab, make sure you create a directory where
/dev/scd0 can exist; do a mkdir /cdrecorder. Your fstab will be
complaint with the mount command.
About the actual CD burning software, the only reason I can see you
wanted to use /dev/cdrecorder is if your software incessantly wants
to hit the device directly and doesn't know of another you can
select--In this case, /dev/cdrecorder. If this is true, you'll want
to read up on the CD burning software and try to change it to the
true device /dev/scd0--which you instructed the OS earlier to use
under SCSI emulation, or you can make a node (mknod) /dev/cdrecorder.
I remember most cd burning programs use the /dev directly and don't
bother with symlinks and mounts. However, mounting a CD recorder to
pull an iso image, you would need to mount it as mentioned in my
first paragraph.
In reply, could you post your entire /etc/fstab? I really hope this
works for you. Sorry I was so lengthy.
Mario
>8---snip---8<
>
>To all the Sluggers
>
>Anybody else have any ideas? Here is the original problem as posted:
>Trying to get my ide cdrecorder as a scsi emulated device so that I
>can burn cd's
>
> Here is the latest update of what I did as outlined from a Suse
>document.
>
># 1 - Went into lilo.conf and added the statement
> append = "hdc=ide-scsi"
># 2 - Did a "/sbin/lilo"
># 3 Went into /etc/init.d/boot.local and added this statement
> "/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi"
># 4 - Created a softlink "ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrecorder"
># 5 - Went into fstab and checked to make sure the line about the
> cdrecorder was correct.
> "/dev/cdrecorder /cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec
> 0 0"
>
>When I try to mount the cdrecorder as root or as user, I get the
>message "/dev/cdrecorder:unknown device"
>
>Is the line in fstab correct? The soft link exists, and a cat
>/proc/modules shows the ide-scsi module loaded. a cat /proc/scsi/scsi
>shows no devices, but I assume that won't show until the cdrecorder is
>mounted. Could it be that scd0 is not the right module? I have a USB
>camera that loads as a scsi device but it is sda1.
>
>Can anyone help me figure out what is wrong here ?
>
>Bob S.
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