Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems

[John Richard Smith]

Tsur, Oren wrote:

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

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-----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

 

As they say look in bios, but it's simple really, if you do it the same 
as mine and all is ok then your've got dvd/writer , master/slave, if it 
comes out , dvd=scd1=cdrom2,  writer=scd0=cdrom, then you're 
master/slave is the opposite way round.

John

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