On Tuesday 04 March 2003 10:30 pm, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 09:35, Franklin Maurer wrote:
Hi Micheal, Please do a ls -l /dev/cdr* and ls -l /dev/dvd, and post the results.
Sorry it took so long, but I was nowhere near my Linux machine during the day. Here's the output:
From ls -l /dev/cdr*: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2003-02-01 16:17 /dev/cdrecorder ->sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2003-03-03 21:52 /dev/cdrom -> sr1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2003-03-03 21:52 /dev/cdrom1 -> sr0
from ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2003-02-01 16:17 /dev/dvd -> hdc
I'm not going to pretend to be a Linux guru (I'm learning from those of you here, though - thanks), but I think I see some problems with the above. My dvd is the first CD style device on my system, the cd writer is second. I doubt that there should be two devices on sr0 (and I think they're both wrong, to boot).
Well there could be two or three problems. I am assuming you have scsi emulation for your dvd and cdrecorder. If you've added hdc=ide-cd to grub then I'm wrong, but from what you said I'll assume you haven't. We can cover whether or not you should later. If your dvd is the first scsi emulated device, as root try # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd # ln -sf.(device ... link) For the cdrecorder change it to # ln -sf /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrecorder. You can leave the cdrom and cdrom1 links alone. Just remember cdrom = sr1 or cdrw, cdrom1 = dvd. Hopefully you should now be able to mount a data cd in both drives. Also check if you can eject both drives from the cdrecorder icon and the dvd icon on your desktop.(It'll test your links) -- Franklin Maurer Using SuSE 8.1