The only way I know is to reboot the pc and watch the bios boot up. -----Original Message----- From: Tsur, Oren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 4:56 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems
wow!!!! excellent reply John. For the life of me I can not remember which was slave and which was master. Is there an easy way of finding out without opening the paperweight again? By the way both drives are scsi emulated. Oren -----Original Message----- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 16:18 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems Tsur, Oren wrote: >That's brilliant John. >Any chance of 'walking' me through this? > >Thanks, Oren > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >Confusion shouldn't be nature's way of telling you that you are thick! > > >-----Original Message----- >From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: 27 March 2003 13:19 >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems > > >Tsur, Oren wrote: > > > >>Dear community, >>This is the story so far - Installed MDK 9, problems with rights to CDRW >> >> >and > > >>DVD, re-installed, set-up rights and everything worked fine, wanted to work >>with x-cd-roast, x-cd-roast couldn't detect my DVD, changed lilo.conf to >>include append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi", in terminal >>typed lilo to load changes, >> >>changes loaded successfully, in x-cd-roast >>everything is fine, in kde my cdrom2 (which used to be my CDRW) is now my >>DVD and my CDRW? I am not sure where it has gone..... when I go to the >>configuration as root I can see that my dvd is mounted as scd1 on >> >> >/mnt/cdrom > > >>and my CDRW is mounted as scd0 on /mnt/cdrom2. >> >> >> >Oh, that happens, don't know why, I change the /mnt/cdrom and >/mnt/cdrom2 around in /etc/fstab entries and then they come out the >proper way round, ie, cdrom= DVD, cdrom2=writer. > >John > try, /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0in /etc/fstab I cannot remember if you have both devices scsi-emulated but this way round makes dvd = scd0 = cdrom, writer = scd1 = cdrom2, always provided that you have dvd/writer master and slave in that order, because the master slave determins scd0 or scd1 , and your fstab entry determins which is cdrom, and cdrom2. John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email Disclaimer This email has been sent from KPMG LLP, a UK limited liability partnership, or from one of the companies within its control (which include KPMG Audit Plc , KPMG United Kingdom Plc and KPMG UK Limited). The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Business Computer Projects - Disclaimer -+-+-+-+-+-+-+- This message, and any associated attachment is confidential. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system, do not use or disclose the information in any way, and notify either Tony S. Sykes or the postmaster <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immediately. The contents of this message may contain personal views which are not necessarily the views of Business Computer Projects Ltd., unless specifically stated. Whilst every effort has been made to ensure that emails and their attachments are virus free, it is the responsibility of the recipient(s) to verify the integrity of such emails. Business Computer Projects Ltd BCP House 151 Charles Street Stockport Cheshire SK1 3JY Tel: +44 (0)161 355-3000 Fax: +44 (0)161 355-3001 Web: http://www.bcpsoftware.com <http://www.bcpsoftware.com/>
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