On Sunday 01 December 2002 14:14, Ali Naddaf wrote:
Good day Kevin. Have you tried mounting your /dev/dvd? Can you tell us what /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd are pointing to? They are simbolic links, pointing to something like /dev/hd* or so.
Can you mount your /dev/cdrecord? Ali. [...]
I can't seem to mount the CD. Here are my results (among many others...)
linux:~ # mount /media/cdrom /dev/cdrom: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type linux:~ # (really? wasn't true in 8.0...)
linux:~ # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) linux:~ # (well, no it isn't, because none of those special devices exist)
Here is my fstab: /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb2 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
Ahhh... I had stopped looking too soon, when I didn't find "sr0" or "sda" or "so", as suggested in the "mount" error message (above). When I tried to mount "/dev/scd0" instead, it worked. OK, so is it considered more proper to edit fstab, or to change/replace the faulty links, and leave fstab alone? Or does it matter? Thanks much. Now I can retrieve all my previous-year mail, including (probably) the answer to my initial problem. By the way, can anybody explain why YaST would set it up that way, when it is known that IDE CD-Rs (etc.) must emulate SCSI devices? Moreover, why wouldn't that have gotten fixed in one of the updates?..... 8.1 has been out for a couple of months, now?? And since we're getting into philosophical questions <grin> why would SuSE be using a different device-naming convention than is expected by "mount" and other Linux infrastructure? Or else, why not modify the command and the supporting files to default to the SuSE way? Why not default to links and device assignments that assume SCSI, since 90%+ of people are going to have either SCSI or IDE (which must pretend to be SCSI) CD and DVD drives? I hope I don't appear to be whining; I'd just like to know the practical and/or technical reasons behind the choices. /kevin