Re: [Sheflug] Drive detection

["Ian W. Wright" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the reply. I have a /dev/cdrom pointing at /dev/hdb which is the
first CDROM but this is a second one on the machine. When it was set up
before it had created a /dev/cdrom1 but I can't find anything such in /dev
this time. Maybe because when I loaded up RH6.2 this time I had a hard drive
on /dev/hdd it has assumed it can't possibly have another device there....
Anyway, it was this hard drive I took out and replaced with the second
CDROM. So, what I need to know is, is there a way of creating a new device -
/dev/cdrom1 or do I start again from scratch with the hardware I now want to
use? I already tried  reinstalling linux over the previous version but, even
though I told it to reformat the partitions, it somehow remembered all the
original settings!
People keep saying that linux is better than windoze because you don't have
to reload to change things but I'm bu****ed if I can work this one out!

Best wishes,
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <xxxxx [at] tesco.net>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 10:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Sheflug] Drive detection


>
> Hi Ian
>
> Check that /dev/cdrom point to /dev/hdd (for slave on 2nd IDE). You could
> look at the fstab entry and confirm that /mnt/cdrom uses /dev/cdrom.
>
> One last thing - The CDROM drive has it's jumpers set to slave doesn't it
?
>  I've forgotten to do it myself on occassions.
>
> Regards, Paul.
>
>
> On Wednesday 24 Jul 2002 11:40 pm, Ian W. Wright wrote:
> > However, I can't get
> > Linux to recognise the CDROM and don't know where to look to change
things.
> > I assume I will have to alter something in fstab?
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