Well...... This is what I have done. I didn't get a chance to see whether it works 100% perfect but.... I tried John's advice but like I thought, the terminal looked at me and shrieked with laughter. I got very, very annoyed and proceeded to do the following:
In /mnt I created two new directories - DVD and CD-RW. Then I chose these as mounting points for my drives respectively. Once I realised both were recognised and working I removed cdrom and cdrom2 from /mnt. as far as I know, everything is working now. I have a mounting point for each drive which has a name which implies what the directory is for. If every thing goes according to plan.... Why the hell didn't I think about it before? It won't backfire on me or anything, will it? Oren -----Original Message----- From: John Richard Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 27 March 2003 20:07 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CDRW/DVD mounting problems 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 >> >>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >>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 > > > 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 -- 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.
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