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

[Ray Knight]

On Wed, 2003-02-26 at 18:18, Geoffrey wrote:
> Sean Kilpatrick wrote:
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> > On Thursday 27 February 2003 02:36 am, Geoffrey wrote:
> > 
> >>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).
> > 
> > 
> > When I call up a list of SCSI devices, this is what I get:
> > 
> > 
> >>Attached devices:
> 
> This is sda0
No, this is a scanner so it does not correspond to an sd? device.

> >>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
> > 
> > 
> 
> This is sda1
This is in fact sda, and may perhaps have an sda1 partition.
> >>Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> >> Vender: HP  Model: CD-Writer+ 8200a Rev: 1.0g
> >> Type: CD-ROM        ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > 
> > 
> This is sda2
Not sure what this is, but if it is a disk device it will be sdb.
> >>Host: scsi2 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> >> Vendor: JUNGSOFT Model: NEXDISK   Rev: 1.00
> >> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > 
> > 
> > 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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