[ale] cd drives, or going nutz the Linux way!

[Geoffrey]

Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> On Thursday 27 February 2003 02:36 am, Geoffrey wrote:
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>>This looks to me like it's identified a driver for the aforementioned
>>usb drive.  You should be able to mount it as a scsi device (/dev/sda1).
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> When I call up a list of SCSI devices, this is what I get:
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>>Attached devices:

This is sda0
>>Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 04 Lun: 00
>> Vender HP  MOdel C2520A   Rev:3503  -- [scanner hooked to the scsi card]
>> Type:  Processor    ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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> 

This is sda1
>>Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>> Vender: HP  Model: CD-Writer+ 8200a Rev: 1.0g
>> Type: CD-ROM        ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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> 
This is sda2
>>Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
>> Vendor: JUNGSOFT Model: NEXDISK   Rev: 1.00
>> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
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> 
> I offer this to preface the question: should I try to
> mount the cd burner as /dev/sda2 or /dev/sda1?

You understand that your ide burner is going to emulate scsi right?

> 
> Of course, when I try, I get this:
>   [root at localhost mnt]# mount /dev/sda2
>   mount: can't find /dev/sda2 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

I'm not sure which drive you're trying to mount.  If it's a cdrom, try this:

mkdir /tmpmnt
for i in 0 1 2;do
mount -t iso9660 /dev/sda${i} /tmpmnt
done

df

See if anything was mounted.  If not, check the log file.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

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