Re: [TCLUG:6098] block device

[Sandipan Panigrahi <pani@frontiernet.net>]

I have the same problem. But I do not use the CDR in
write mode so often. I put the "hdc=ide-scsi" command line
option to the /etc/lilo.conf and created a second boot prompt.

I use the second configuration for writing to the CD and stick
to the first one for other things.  Since I have 2 cdrom drives on 
the machine it doesnot bother me much.

regards,
sandipan

Tim Wilson wrote:
> 
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I'm getting this message when I try to mount my CD-ROM.
> 
> [wilson@galileo wilson]$ mount /mnt/cdrom
> mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
>        (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> 
> This happened after I recompiled a new kernel with SCSI emulation. (I need
> it to use my IDE HP 8100 CD-RW drive.) Relevent parts of /etc/fstab look
> like:
> 
> /dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660  user,exec,dev,suid,ro,noauto 0 0
> /dev/cdrw       /mnt/cdrw       iso9660  user,exec,dev,suid,rw        1 1
> 
> I moved the /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrw sym links to point to my new
> "phantom" SCSI devices.
> 
> [wilson@galileo wilson]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrw
>    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root   9 May 20 10:17 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
>    0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root   9 May 20 10:18 /dev/cdrw -> /dev/scd1
> 
> Here's what /proc/scsi/scsi looks like:
> 
> [wilson@galileo wilson]$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> Attached devices:
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: SONY     Model: CD-ROM CDU701    Rev: 1.0f
>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
>   Vendor: HP       Model: CD-Writer+ 8100  Rev: 1.0f
>   Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> 
> Any ideas what's going on?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -Tim
> 
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