Steve, So your kernel parameter looks like:
hdd=ide-scsi Its in your lilo or grub.conf file right? Did you by chance insmod ide-scsi ? lsmod to find out. Did you include the ignore=hdd in your modules.conf? - Bill --- Steve Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bill Cunningham wrote: > > Steve, > > > > Are you sure the your kernel supports iso9660? Check > that > > /proc/fs ( /proc/filesystems ) shows iso9660 in your > > kernel. After that I'd reset the system ( reboot ) to > make > > sure that one of the drivers hasn't gone out to lunch. > ( Or > > you could do the rmmod/insmod thing ). Did you setup > the > > kernel parameter for ide-scsi or did a script set it > up? > > > > I haven't had this much trouble in the past with > mounting > > drives. Did you build the kernel yourself? > > > > - Bill > > Bill, > > I checked out /proc/filesystems and iso9660 is supported. > I was able to > mount a CD in my DVD drive and look at it with no > problems. I setup the > kernel parameter for ide-scsi. I was following the > instructions located > at http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/cdrw.htm. I > built the kernel > (2.4.23) myself. I rebooted but it made no difference. > > Tim Hammerquist wrote: > <snip> > > The only time I get a "xxx is not a valid block > device" on > > a removable device I know full well is there, is when > there's no > > media in it. (Mount /dev/fd0 w/o floppy gives this > error.) With > > a cdrw drive, this can also mean it's merely an > unreadable > > filesystem, in which case I'd suggest trying it on a > separate PC > > whose CD drive you _know_ works. > > Tim, > > I tried the other devices you listed but got the same > error. Since I > rebooted, I decided to go into Windows (ugh) which read > the CD-RW just fine. > > After rebooting back into Linux I decided to take a look > at dmesg in > case anything stuck out. Included are the bits dealing > with the CD-RW > drive. > > hdd: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9300, ATAPI > CD/DVD-ROM drive > hdd: attached ide-scsi driver. > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 > scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices > Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 9300 Rev: 1.0c > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI > revision: 02 > ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) > end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64 > isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:40, iso_blknum=16, > block=32 > > These last three lines stick out at me. I'm guessing the > error at > ide-scsi might be causing the other two and thus the > mounting problems, > but have no idea what command it's bitching about. > > Finally, since you might ask, here is the lilo entry: > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > append="hdd=ide-scsi" > > Thanks, > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > RLUG mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
