, i "Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
> 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-
OK.I have since reconfigured the CD'S bacvk to where they had started,...cd read only
on hdb,cd r+w on hdb,
my "dmesg reads fine with the exception of the last few lines which go as
follows(can't seem to cut and paste for some reason)(bill @localhost bill)$ tepping 03
bash: tepping:command not found
(bill@localhost bill) $ Checking 386/387 coupling...OK,FPU usingexception 16 error
reporting
bash:Checking:command not found
it repeats this last paragraph ,don't know if this means anything but first time I
got that one.
In regard to fstab ,thats another story now,is fstab supposed to make duplicate files
everytime you make a change to it?I now have four different fstab
files,fstab,fstab-,fstab--,fsatb---
fstab reads: /dev/cdrom /mnt/ cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2
0 0
fstab- reads : /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/scd0 0 0
/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
fstab-- reads the same as fstab-
and fstab--- reads:/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0
So right now I have use of cdrom read only,which is working normally,cdrom2 just gets
a "can not list directory contents file :/mntcdrom2"
Also mtab list as this:/mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom
/mnt/cdrom2 supermount
rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2
There is also this line just above these entries in mtab which reads as : none
/dev/pts devpts rw,mode 0620 0 0
so that's it so far , thanks for your response ,this thing is killing me ,taking up
more time than I care to think aboutBut it's been fun
