Re: [Sheflug] Unknown device under RH7.2

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As root, do

modprobe ide-scsi

and try the mount again.

If this makes it work, then you need to add the line 'modprobe ide-scsi'
to /etc/rc.d/boot.local

Thats it!

HTH

Craig

On Fri, 2001-12-28 at 22:51, Peter Collier wrote:
> 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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