Re: [Sheflug] Unknown device under RH7.2

[Peter Collier <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 29 December 2001 10:36, you wrote:
> if xcdroast can see the drives, they are definitely scd0 and scd1. The
> ide-scsi emulation driver is being used. Check /etc/lilo.conf for a line
> like:
>
> append="hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi"
My lilo.conf file is named lilo.conf.anaconda(Red Hat sys).
the requested line shows append="hdc=ide-scsi" (hdc is the rewriter).
>
> what are the actual lines that are being used in /etc/fstab? If cdroast
> can read and write disks, then it is not a problem with access to the
> drives being messed up.
>
> As root, can you mount a disk by doing:
>
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
I get /dev/scd0 unknown device, & same for scd1.
>
> ?? If not, then there is something amiss, but you should at least be
> able to do this.
>
> If not, check that the files /dev/scd0 is listed something like this:
>
> brw-r-----    1 root     disk      11,   0 Sep 24 02:54 /dev/scd0
                                    ^^   ^^
>
> The numbers underlines with ^^ are the important ones. If these are
> different, then the device files are wrong.
I get 
[root@localhost log]# ls -l /dev/scd0
brw-------    1 peter    disk      11,   0 Aug 30 21:30 /dev/scd0
[root@localhost log]# ls -l /dev/scd1
brw-------    1 peter    disk      11,   1 Aug 30 21:30 /dev/scd1
>

> have a go, and let us know how it goes!
>
> Craig
>

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