On Wednesday 11 December 2002 17.19, Steve Miller wrote:
Hi,
Followed your advice (below).
As root do this:
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrecorder rm /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
After that you should be able to mount the CD using either "mount /cdrom" or "mount /cdrecorder".
I was able to mount and correctly read the CD as /cdrom, but not as /cdrecorder.
Did you umount /cdrom before trying to mount /cdrecorder? You can't mount the same device twice.
I shut down to pick up again later.
On restarting, I logged on as root to set up xcdroast, which I'd been unable to do. Again, xcdroast failed to see the CDRW (but did see the Zip drive). On further inspection, I determined that I could not even mount the CD as /cdrom.
Was the ide-scsi module loaded? Try adding ide-scsi to the INITRD line in /etc/sysconfig/kernel file and running mk_initrd
A possibly related problem: I can't set up the medium in YaST: When I try to set up the CD, I select SCSI ("/dev/sr?") and then the menu gives me oncy choices starting with "scd". Is the solution here to put in more links ("ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom") or does the failure of /dev/sr0 to show up indicate another problem?
/dev/scd0 and /dev/sr0 are identical. They are two names for the same thing. Some parts of the system use one name, others use the other. It is of no significance Anders