Hi, After watching things stop working after an earlier reboot, I've been rebooting between troubleshoots. So I'll start with my results after rebooting:
grep record /etc/fstab /dev/cdrecorder /cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user 0 0
So it's /cdrecorder. And ...
mount /cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device mount /cdrecorder mount: mount point /cdrecorder does not exist
The test you suggested gets:
lsmod | grep ide-scsi
(i.e., nothing.). Now I run the other test again. (Script is appended below, after my name.) It seems that I have the module, but it's not loading automatically.
lsmod | grep ide-scsi ide-scsi 7840 0
mount /cdrom ls -lt /cdrom | head -1 total 112691 umount /cdrom mount /cdrecorder mount: mount point /cdrecorder does not exist
But this did cause the CD-RW to start spinning. Nothing shows up if I run mount alone. So I seem to have a couple of problems: (1) how can I get the system to summon the ide-scsi module when I try to mount the CD? (It runs my parallel port printer by loading modules just fine.), and (2) is there some way to tell the system about "legal" mount points? Test file is below. On reviewing my results, it seems that the script loaded the module the first time (i.e., it complained about no auto-load.). I'm going through the insmod man page now, but if you see what I need to do right away, that would help a lot. Thanks, Steve ****** test `whoami` = 'root' || echo "You must be root to execute the commands." cdrecord -scanbus > /dev/null if ! (pidof kerneld || test -f "/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe"); then echo "Neither kerneld nor kmod are running to automatically load modules." fi report_no_autoload() { echo "Ensure the module $1 is loaded automatically next time." } if test ! -f "/proc/scsi/scsi"; then report_no_autoload scsi_mod && insmod scsi_mod fi if ! grep "^........ sg_" /proc/ksyms > /dev/null; then report_no_autoload sg && insmod sg fi if ! grep "^........ sr_" /proc/ksyms > /dev/null; then report_no_autoload sr_mod && insmod sr_mod fi if ! grep "^........ loop_" /proc/ksyms > /dev/null; then report_no_autoload loop && insmod loop fi if ! grep iso9660 /proc/filesystems > /dev/null; then report_no_autoload iso9660 && insmod iso9660 fi echo "The following is only needed for IDE/ATAPI CD writers." if ! grep ide-scsi /proc/ide/drivers > /dev/null; then report_no_autoload ide scsi && insmod ide-scsi fi cdrecord -scanbus __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com