On Sat June 7 2003 4:27 am, John Sowden wrote:
I am attempting to set up a dvd-ram drive in fstab: /dev/sr0 /media/dvd-ram vfat defaults,user=500 0 0 then in cfdisk: cfdisk /dev/sr0 part 1 type c (fat32 lba) cylinders: 1 to +1000M non-bootable (gives me a err 22 (invaid argument) (but I can read the part table)
then in msdosfs mkdosfs -S2048 -F32 -nDVD-RAM1 /dev/sr0p1
result: cannot read disk geometry
I think I got all the arguments, etc. as entered (what is the difference between /dev/sr0 and /dev/sd0) John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901
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The difference between /dev/sr0 and /dev/sd0 is that the former is a SCSI recorder device and the latter is a SCSI drive (HDD for example) device. Stan