Re: [SLUG] 5th of a dozen questions - No luck

From: Glen (gurensan@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Dec 03 2001 - 17:54:17 EST


Hahaha...a little late, but right ! ;)

        Glen

On Monday 03 December 2001 13:03, you wrote:
> If cdrecord -scanbus does not find a scsi device, then the ide-scsi module
> is not loaded. Try modprobe ide-scsi first, then run the cdrecord -scanbus.
> It should find a device on LUN 0,0,0.
>
> Glen
>
> On Sunday 02 December 2001 00:27, you wrote:
> > On Friday 30 November 2001 12:36 pm, you all wrote:
> >
> > Mario wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > OK, Did as suggested and changed /dev/cdrecorder to /dev/scd0.
> > There already was a directory , /media/cdrecorder as was suggested by
> > Suse and is in the fstab file as the mount prompt. Now when I do a
> > "mount /dev/scdo or a mount /media/cdrecorder" I get the same result
> > with differnt words: "mount: /dev/scd0 unknown device"
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Can't get that far. "cdrecord -scanbus" produces a "No such file or
> > directory. Cannot open scsi driver" Although this is what I want to
> > do, I am trying to mount it to make sure it is recognized and to be
> > able to read from the drive.
> >
> > > In reply, could you post your entire /etc/fstab? I really hope
> > > this works for you. Sorry I was so lengthy.
>
> <snip>



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