i used to have a 'disapearing CDROM' problem with redhat...i'd boot up and
sometimes i couldnt mount the cdrom.....i finally discovered that if i did a
'modprobe cdrom' at boot it'd come back...
maybe the same problem....maybe
On Sunday 12 May 2002 2:18 am, you wrote:
> On Saturday 11 May 2002 06:08 pm, you wrote:
> > have you tried mounting by hand to see if you can, what does work?
> > comment out or delete the line in fstab that you have there for the time
> > being, make sure /mnt/cdrom exists and check its permissions, even root
> > can't read or write a file it doesn't have permissions for if they are
> > not set - the point of root is that it can always set them - which is why
> > sometmes it seems that root is locked out of something, then as root try
> > #mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
> > or
> > #mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
> >
> > that is about as basic a mount command as you can get for a cdrom, the
> > latter would be if you are using ide-scsi for the writer, if neither of
> > these work then perhaps you have incorrectly configured ide-scsi (i'm
> > guessing wildly here)
> >
> > bascule
>
> Good plus he needs to have his cdrom writer drivers running first.
> YOu are right about getting the drive to at least behave like a cdrom drive
> first. Because once he has it doing that, he can then install the
> appropriate drivers for cdwriting depending on his hardware. I use ide-scsi
> as that is what supports my hardware. When you make the cdrom dev (ie
> /dev/hdd) from scratch for the first time, use MAKEDEV not mkdir. But that
> shouldn't be necessary if you have devfs installed and running or if
> diskdrake already has it as /dev/hdd. You might have to recompile your
> kernel for that support if it isn't present. After getting the drive to at
> least behave like a cdrom drive, load the appropriate cd writing modules,
> after doing "modprobe ide-scsi" (in my case), run the command "cdrecord
> -scanbus". That should detect your cd writer and with that information, you
> should then be able to do as you were once able to do. Write cdr discs once
> again.
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