BILL wrote:
> Hi ,
> I'm having the same problem (this may be a long letter),I have two CD players, a
> read only and a burnnerRW(Iomega Zip cd r+w),and over the las three month or so
> I have at different times had both working,but constantly have had to reinstall
> for one reason or another,and have ,due to bad short term memory,forgotten what
> I did to get them to work in the first place. This last time I re connected my
> IDE controls ,and changed the master/slave settings on both,since this helped
> once before ,only this time it still refused to let me use my burnner,and just
> followed my read only over to /mnt/cdrom2,so I powered down and reconnected them
> as they where originally set up and low and behold,now I can only access my
> burnner and not my readonly.
> Phew!! Now according to your above letter IO checked mtab,which I was unclear
> of its purpose in the scheme of things,and yes i only have one entry there at
> this moment ,that being the cd burner.while fstab lists both,
That tells me right there that your CD-ROM is not being mounted. It's in the fstab,
so the system tries to mount it, but the mount fails.
> when I attrempt to use the readonly KFM pops up with a white screen and a
> "documents done" line at the bottom of the border,but no image or info from cd.
And this is yet more evidence that it has not been mounted properly -- KFM is
showing the contents of the mount point (i.e., nothing =) ) because the drive
hasn't actually been mounted.
> I have also checked dmesg and I find this : scsi0:SCSI host
>
> adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI device
> scsi:1 host
> vender:Hitachi model:CDR-8130 REV.0021
> type:CDROM ANSI SCSI rev:02
> detected:scsi cdrom sr0 at channel0,id 0 lun0 scsi 0
> sr0:scsi 3-mm2 drive:8x/16xcd rw xa /form 2 cdda tray
So your CD-R is being detected properly,
> ide-scsi:hdb unsupported command in request queue (0)
> end_request:I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb),sector 0
> cdrom:opened failed
and your CD-ROM is not.
> it then repeats the last two lines,
> the only other entry referring to the cdrom is a line at the top reading: ide
> setup:hdb=scsi
> I also just noticed that the read only cdrom has an entry of "rw"
> sr0:scsi 3-mm2 drive:8x/16xcd rw xa /form 2 cdda tray see? what is that
> about ,is it a mistake or just normal,or is my cdrom read only a read and write
> wannabe?
What it looks like to *me* right now is that you've tried to configure your CD-ROM
as a CD-R. You've got it set to use SCSI emulation, and for CD-ROMs this generally
isn't necessary. What I would like to know is what you did to make your CD-R work,
because I suspect you also did this for your CD-ROM (and you should not have).
We'll need to undo this.
If it says you've got a rw device, then... hmn... it's mis-identifying it (again, I
think that's because you've got it using SCSI emulation).
What's in your fstab? (please *attach* it, don' t paraphrase). Is this an existing
kernel, or have you compiled one?
-Stephen-
