CDR-W Troubles

j7899 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 30

I cant get my CDR-W drive to mount. In Grub I have hdc=ide-scsi and am loading the modules. cdrecord -scanbus returns:

scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'SONY ' 'CD-RW CRX160E ' '1.0e' Removable CD-ROM

I even created /dev/sr0 and linked /dev/cdrw to it. The problem is when I try to mount I get an error saying not a valid block device. I tried linking /dev/sr0 to something like /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0 but that didn't work I also tried linking to /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0 with no luck. Any advice?

klieber · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 7:09 pm Post subject:

Does dmesg return anything pertinent? Also, are you getting any error messages in your logs?

Generally, these types of problems are due to a kernel config error, so you might double-check your config to make sure all the right things are compiled. Also, I'm assuming you tried the '-t iso9660' option to the mount command, right?

--kurt
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BillyD · Guru Joined: 05 May 2002 Posts: 323 Location: Australia

Do you have it defined in your fstab?

j7899 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 30

No errors, it is just that sr0 doesn't point to anything, ie, cdrom0 points to /dev/ide/etc...... and sr0 doesn't. sg0 does point to generic scsi support, but it wont work

It is somewhat defined in fstab right now, I need to figure out setting it up and linking it first before I am worried about fstab, it basically looks as so:

/dev/sro /mnt/cdrecorder is09660 user,noauto,rw 0 0

BillyD · Guru Joined: 05 May 2002 Posts: 323 Location: Australia

How about your /etc/devfsd.conf file? You may have already done it, however there are some lines in there you may need to uncomment...take a look. Sorry if these suggestions aren't helping - just things that are popping into my head that may have something to do with it.

j7899 · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 30

Yeah I uncommented those lines and it created the devices, but they aren't linked to anything.

jay · l33t Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 980

rob · n00b Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 4

/dev/sro /mnt/cdrecorder is09660 user,noauto,rw 0 0
You may have made a typo but that should be iso9660 not is<zero>9660.

Also you will want sr_mod, sg, scsi_mod, iso9660 (with joliette extentions) and ide-scsi compiled in or as modules for your kernel. ide-scsi should be compiled in if you are booting with ide-scsi=hd?.

not sure if this helps but good luck.

-rob_