Bingo ! This was the problem! Doh...when I removed /dev/sr1 and changed the minor number to 1, it worked fine!
Thanks for everyone's help on this - an interesting learning experience. But I am still curious why I have to have both cdrom/rw emulating scsi. Why wouldn't my hard drives suffer the same problem? Please forgive my sys-admin ignorance. > > > > IIRC, both of these drives are actually IDE and you're doin' > > SCSI-emulation, right? And, you did some mknod's on your own, right? > > From your previous post: > > $ mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0 > > and > > $ mknod /dev/sr1 b 11 0 > > I never saw this snippet before, but this is obliviously (sic) an error. > Thats a block device, major 11, minor 0 mapped to both /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1 > If /dev/sr0 gets mounted, then obviously /dev/sr1 is also mounted, thus > 'busy' if you try to mount /dev/sr1 somewhere whilst /dev/sr0 is mounted. > > su root > unmount all cd devices > rm /dev/sr1 > mknod /dev/sr1 b 11 1 ===== _____________________________ Susan Macchia mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _____________________________ - Running Linux - because life is too short for reboots... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
