Hi, Thanks very much for the help, it works fine now :) <listening to cd and humming>
Regards Wayne. > It points to itself? Humm > OK, I think (?) what you have done is removed the old link you had > pointing to your 'old' cdrom and put in a flakely one. > > > I have added a line to my /etc/lilo.conf like this: > > append="hdc=ide-scsi" which is below the Linux Stanza. I altered > > the /etc/fstab file like this: hashed out existing /dev/cdrom line > > then added a line: > > /dev/scd0 /cdrom auto > defaults,ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 > What does ls -l /dev/cdrom show you? Not what you want, I would > guess. That fstab line isn'tc correct either. > > Do this. Assumeing you only have 1 CD now, the Ricoh, and it is at > /dev/scd0 ( cdrecord dev 1,0,0), get rig of the scd0 -> scd0 link and > do > ls -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom (symlink cdron to point to scd0) > then a > ls -l /dev/cdrom should show you this > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 14 13:17 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0 > > Now your link is right. > > I just added a cdrw drive but kept the cdrom in the box as well. I > decided to use them both under scsi emulation. The cdrom is sdc0 and > the reader is sdc1. My links are > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 14 13:17 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 14 13:17 /dev/cdrw -> /dev/scd1 > > In fstab they are > /dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 > /dev/scd1 /cdrw iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 > > :-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-) > > Wayne > The name is Baud......, James Baud. > _______________________________________________________
