I'm no expert here, but I think the fact that this works means that ide-cd has got /dev/hdc, which is why ide-scsi doesn't grab it. I think there's an option to tell ide-cd to explicitly ignore /dev/hdc, but I don't know what it is.
ap ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: > > i bet that this works ( assuming the kernel has been told by grub/lilo > > the hdc=ide-scsi option ) > > > > mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom > > > > and if it does ... make a link > > cd /dev ; ln -s ./hdc cdrom ( for reading cd's ) > > cd /dev ; ln -s ./hdc cdrw ( for writing ) > > > > c ya > > alvin > > > > well, i could at any time easily mount the cd/dvd in the drive using > /dev/hdc. > the boot-loader is configured properly (hdc=ide-scsi). > the /dev/cdrom link is already there, /dev/cdrw did not bring me much > further: > what i am still missing is the appearance of the drive in the ouput of > #cdrecord -scanbus. so i can not access it for writing cds. > > thanks anyway > rolf > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
