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douglas_slac
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 Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 12:36 am Post subject: CD-RW not recognised. |
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Trying to install gentoo since Linux World here, and I do linux support
as part of my living. Hate to see a new linux user try this, two weeks in
and I barely have a kde working, a few extra apps, no servers yet, no
database, and my problem I state here, no CD.
I tried to mount a cd. And I tried mount /dev/cdrom, hdc, sr0, and scd0
and each time I was told that the special device does not exist.
Also this is a cd-rw drive, and I would like to make cd's at some point.
I followed the install manual closely (I believe) what did I miss to get
the cd working? |
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syscrash
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 1:00 am Post subject: |
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| try mount /mnt/cdrom. Usually, the device is /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. |
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douglas_slac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 1:19 am Post subject: |
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Ah, not that either:
bash-2.05b# mount /mnt/cdrom/
mount: special device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 does not exist
Is there something special that needs to be put in at startup to
get the cdrom recognized? |
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scriptkiddie
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 1:50 am Post subject: |
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do the following:
dmesg | grep CD
mine shows my cd-rw as hdc, DVD as hdd.... etc.
Once you know what yours is, then do:
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
if that doesn't work.. check and see if you have /dev filesystem compiled in the kernel |
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douglas_slac
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| Posted: Sat Aug 30, 2003 2:12 am Post subject: |
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Well, one thing about the distro, I am getting nice fast detail replies to
quests, I like this! (really, I'm not being sarcastic.)
But, sorry.
bash-2.05b# dmesg | grep -i cd
Linux version 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 (root@cdimage) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r1, propolice)) #2 Sun Aug 10 16:41:45 PDT 2003
hdc: _NEC CD-RW NR-7800A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
bash-2.05b# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom/
mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist
I have been able to mount the hard drive hda and hdb with various
paritions, doesn't that mean I have the /dev filesystem? |
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pigah1
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 6:12 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm having a similar problem (same?). It worked fine for reading on first startup, but then I burned one cd and now I have the same symptoms. |
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pigah1
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Also, I do have devfs in the kernel and can also mount floppies. |
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scriptkiddie
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| Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2003 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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ok.. so you have /devfs and it sees the cdrom, but its not working
interesting... can you try this, try setting the cd-rw under something else like slave or cable select and then boot back up.. maybe that will help |
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pigah1
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| Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2003 4:19 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, I could mount and see cdroms at /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. Then I installed xcdroast, burnt one cd successfully, then the next time I tried to mount a cdrom...nothing. dmesg gives
| Quote: | | hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive |
and trying to mount gives
| Quote: | | mount: special device /dev/hdc does not exist |
as in douglas_slac's case.
How do I go about setting cd-rw under slave or cable select?
Thanks |
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pigah1
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