Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-30 Thread cr
On Saturday 31 August 2002 05:08, Chuck Gelm wrote: > Howdy, Y'all: > > I noticed that the poster never mentioned, explicitly, > that they were mounting the filesystem as type iso9660. > i.e. > mount -t iso9660 /dev/sd0? /cdrom-rw > ^^ > Since I am a newbie, I didn't post, until now

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-30 Thread B.J. Wilson
> > (What is plural of 'guru'?) > > It's "gurutavatimundiharistrasnivishumaximotiousnesses". Yeah - don't you remember singing that song from "Shiva Poppins" when you were a kid? ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL P

RE: Can't see my drives

2002-08-30 Thread James Miller
On 30 Aug 2002, Chuck Gelm wrote: > (What is plural of 'guru'?) It's "gurutavatimundiharistrasnivishumaximotiousnesses". Note the "es" on the end. Only in the case of this word does Sanskrit form the plural like English (and German, when they're not being silly and trying to indicate plural b

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-30 Thread Chuck Gelm
Howdy, Y'all: I noticed that the poster never mentioned, explicitly, that they were mounting the filesystem as type iso9660. i.e. mount -t iso9660 /dev/sd0? /cdrom-rw ^^ Since I am a newbie, I didn't post, until now. I recall, time after time, the helpful guru's (What is plural of

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-30 Thread cr
On Friday 30 August 2002 05:07, grottoBoy rant wrote: > Don't know if you've fixed this already, I don't know about configuring for > CDRW as scsi emulation or whatever, but were you specifying iso9660 > filesystem type when attempting to mount, ie. > mount -t iso9660 /dev/(?) /mnt/cdrom > man mou

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-29 Thread grottoBoy rant
Don't know if you've fixed this already, I don't know about configuring for CDRW as scsi emulation or whatever, but were you specifying iso9660 filesystem type when attempting to mount, ie. mount -t iso9660 /dev/(?) /mnt/cdrom man mount for syntax later Original Message Follows On S

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-26 Thread cr
On Monday 26 August 2002 07:53, Arthur Othieno wrote: > Subject: Re: Can't see my drives > > > Selected responses only, below. > > > > >As a related question, is there anywhere on the Internet a page that > > > explains > > >(in simple la

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-25 Thread Arthur Othieno
- Original Message - From: "Ray Olszewski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 4:05 PM Subject: Re: Can't see my drives > Selected responses only, below. > > At 08:27 PM 8/24/02 +1200

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-24 Thread cr
On Sunday 25 August 2002 03:05, Ray Olszewski wrote: > Selected responses only, below. > Before I set up ide-scsi here, my CD burner worked just fine as a reader in > ide mode. That's exactly what I'd expect to be able to do. In fact,as I recall it, when I replaced my old 6x CD-ROM (IDE) d

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-22 Thread grottoBoy rant
Hi, My fstab file is set the same, I'm on RH7.2... During boot, do you see the device recognized. Anything showing related to /mnt/(dev) that seems funny if you enter the command dmesg, or tail /var/log/messages? Maybe you could doublecheck permissions on the device ls -l cdrom would show per

Re: Can't see my drives

2002-08-22 Thread Ray Olszewski
Your report is a bit hard to read, so please forgive me if I have misinterpreted what you sent. 1. /dev/cdrom is usually a symlink, not a real device entry. Is it pointing to the right actual device (/dev/hd?, if your system is IDE, or /dev/sd? if it is SCSI, where ? gets replaced with the ri

Can't see my drives

2002-08-22 Thread cr
I'm having trouble 'seeing' the floppy drive or the CD-ROM. I'm running RedHat 7.2, in all previous versions I had no trouble reading the floppy or CD-ROM, for example just by goingcd /mnt/cdrom ls But now this doesn't work any more. Doesn't matter whether I'm 'me' or su root, cd