Re: [expert] cd-wr

[Trevor Farrell]

John Aldrich wrote:

 On Mon, 26 Mar 2035, you wrote:
  I having trouble installing 2 cd rom drives. one is as cd-wr from Ricoh
  Anyone had done this before?
 
 Both ATAPI? or is one SCSI or both SCSI? I think we need a
 bit more info. However, what you MIGHT want to do (assuming
 BOTH are ATAPI/IDE) is make sure that you have the line:
 append='hdX=ide-scsi' (where X=drive that the CDRW is on)
 in your /etc/lilo.conf and re-run LILO.
 Second, link /dev/scd0 to /dev/hdX. Third, make a new mount

 ^
My system has the link from /dev/cdrom2   (or /dev/cdrw - whatever name you
want) to /dev/scd0, there is no link from scd0 to hd?


 point for it, i.e. /mnt/cdrw and put it in /etc/fstab. Not
 that you'll likely ever WANT to mount it, but...
 John

and I often mount it, a second CD is handy sometimes!

Trevor

Re: [expert] cd-wr

[John Aldrich]

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, you wrote:
  Both ATAPI? or is one SCSI or both SCSI? I think we need a
  bit more info. However, what you MIGHT want to do (assuming
  BOTH are ATAPI/IDE) is make sure that you have the line:
  append='hdX=ide-scsi' (where X=drive that the CDRW is on)
  in your /etc/lilo.conf and re-run LILO.
  Second, link /dev/scd0 to /dev/hdX. Third, make a new mount
 
  ^
 My system has the link from /dev/cdrom2   (or /dev/cdrw - whatever name you
 want) to /dev/scd0, there is no link from scd0 to hd?

There shouldn't be a link from scd0 to hdx, because hdxy is
for IDE hard devices only. /dev/scxy is for SCSI devices.
 
  point for it, i.e. /mnt/cdrw and put it in /etc/fstab. Not
  that you'll likely ever WANT to mount it, but...
  John
 
 and I often mount it, a second CD is handy sometimes!
 
That's true. However, more often than not, you'll want to
use the primary CDROM. As I said in the above quote -- it
won't hurt to put it in /etc/fstab in case you want to
mount it at some point. :-)
John

Re: [expert] cd-wr

[John Aldrich]

On Mon, 26 Mar 2035, you wrote:
 I having trouble installing 2 cd rom drives. one is as cd-wr from Ricoh
 Anyone had done this before?

Both ATAPI? or is one SCSI or both SCSI? I think we need a
bit more info. However, what you MIGHT want to do (assuming
BOTH are ATAPI/IDE) is make sure that you have the line:
append='hdX=ide-scsi' (where X=drive that the CDRW is on)
in your /etc/lilo.conf and re-run LILO.
Second, link /dev/scd0 to /dev/hdX. Third, make a new mount
point for it, i.e. /mnt/cdrw and put it in /etc/fstab. Not
that you'll likely ever WANT to mount it, but...
John

Re: [expert] cd-wr

[Dana J. Laude]

Could you be a little more specific? (i.e., scsi or eide,
what type of cd-rom is also used, model #, etc?)

Regards,

Dana

Mandraky wrote:
 
 I having trouble installing 2 cd rom drives. one is as cd-wr from Ricoh
 Anyone had done this before?
 TIA