CD-RW drive install

[pbharris]

and oh yea - a link (symbolic) would be over writing the file - kinda like creating a file that exists. the i see you also made a block device called /dev/cdrom - this should be a link to the real cd device, i.e. /dev/scd0 if you have one cd drive

[imported_RedHat]

ughhh here is what happened:

[root@furio root]# mount /dev/scd0
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device
[root@furio root]# mount /mnt/cdr
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device

I did exactly what you said. Maybe I missed something. I'll show you my stuff...
fstab line:

/dev/scd0               /mnt/cdr                auto    noauto,owner,rw        0 0

Now I also tried replacing /dev/scd0 with /dev/cdrom but got the same error.

[root@furio root]# ls -l /dev/scd0
brw-------    1 redhat     disk      11,   0 May  6 21:21 /dev/scd0
[root@furio root]# ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 May  6 21:21 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
[root@furio root]# ls -l /dev/hdc
brw-------    1 redhat     disk      22,   0 Jan 30 05:24 /dev/hdc

Miss anything? The drive is on hdc - should that be linked to anything? Also I just noticed that /dev/scd0 and /dec/hdc aren't owned by root - could that be the problem? Thanks

[trickster]

Just a shot in the dark, but my CD-RW is at /dev/sr0.

Perhaps try that?

[imported_RedHat]

[quote author=trickster link=board=1;threadid=6965;start=0#64769 date=1052271828]
Just a shot in the dark, but my CD-RW is at /dev/sr0.

Perhaps try that?
[/quote]

No, I get the same thing, this time,
mount: /dev/sr0 is not a valid block device

(after deleting and creating sr0 with mknod)

[pbharris]

hello,
try mount /mnt/cdr instead of /mnt/scd0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

is this redhat ?

[imported_RedHat]

[quote author=pbharris link=board=1;threadid=6965;start=0#64773 date=1052273331]
hello,
try mount /mnt/cdr instead of /mnt/scd0

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

is this redhat ?
[/quote]

pb, I've done everything you said. On startup when it says updating fstab, it gives a "failed" and says cannot stat /dev/cdrom, no such file. Here's my /dev/cdrom:

ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 May  6 22:24 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sd0

So it does exist, it's just pointing to sd0. What should it be pointing or not pointing to? And BTW, i've made those revisions to my fstab and yes I use RedHat.

[pbharris]

hello,
that should be scd0 - not sd0

you can create a link to a file that does not exist, if you have color in you terminal it will show up as red.

and oh yea, that line in my previous post is the entry from my fstab

[imported_RedHat]

arghhhhhhhhh

It's still saying mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

Here's my /dev/cdrom after I changed it:

[root@furio root]# ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 May  6 23:08 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0

???

[pbharris]

okay - now i am suspecting not all of your modules are loading correctly - did you recompile your kernel?


try this:
depmod -a

then do a lsmod and see what modules are loaded

btw - do you have aim? i am pbharris359

[imported_RedHat]

I do recompile my kernel a lot. I'll look in my config and see if I can find anything fishy. Meanwhile, here's my modules:

[root@furio root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
es1370                 29004   0  (autoclean)
nvidia               1676128  10  (autoclean)
ipt_TOS                 1624  22  (autoclean)
iptable_nat            19928   1  (autoclean)
ipt_state               1080   3  (autoclean)
ip_conntrack           26976   2  (autoclean) [iptable_nat ipt_state]
ipt_LOG                 4152  10  (autoclean)
ipt_limit               1528   3  (autoclean)
iptable_mangle          2744   1  (autoclean)
apm                    12936   2
natsemi                19552   1
ide-scsi               10480   0
ide-cd                 33700   0
cdrom                  33728   0  [ide-cd]
st                     31248   0  (unused)