Cannot mount cdrw/dvd

EnsignRicki · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 49

I enabled scsi emulation support to get my burner working. When I do a cdrecord -scanbus it seems to detect the drive ok. But I am not sure how to go about mounting it to read cds. dmesg shows that the burner is detected as hdc but when I look at the /dev directory I do not see hdc there. Is the device listed as something else becaue of the scsi emulation? How do I go about mounting a cd in the drive?

adaptr · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:24 am Post subject:

First of all, if you use a moderately recent kernel - and you do, since this is Gentoo - you no longer need the SCSI emulation; cdrecord will handle ATAPI burners just fine.

Second, if you use SCSI emulation you have to give that drive a kernel option of "hdc=ide-scsi" to get it to work at all.

My advice would be to drop the SCSI bits and just see if it works.

Oh and is your devFS / udev functioning correctly ?
That would be a reason the device doesn't show up.
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EnsignRicki · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 49

I'm using kernel 2.4.26. I thought you didn't scsi emulation only if you were using the 2.6 kernels. Hmm. I made sure to put hdc=ide-scsi in grub.conf but still no go. How do I check if devfs is working properly. If it is not how do I fix it?

adaptr · Posted: Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:45 am Post subject:

How to check for DevFS is simple: Gentoo will complain - loudly - if it isn't working!

But to verify that it is working correctly - phew, I'm not sure there's a recipe that always works... at least check the /etc/devfs.d dir for obvious flaws...

You're right, I did mean a 2.6 kernel - it's sooo good you'll kick yourself for not switching earlier!
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>>> emerge (3 of 7) mcse/70-293 to /
Essential tools: gentoolkit eix profuse screen