Re: ide cdrom -> scsi emu problems

Jerrud wrote: I`ve tried your solutions, but I recieve another type of error, specificly:: alpha:/home/mechanical# ln /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom ln: /dev/cdrom: File exists alpha:/home/mechanical# ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom ln: /dev/cdrom: File exists alpha:/home/mechanical# The same error occure

Re: ide cdrom -> scsi emu problems

I`ve tried your solutions, but I recieve another type of error, specificly:: alpha:/home/mechanical# ln /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom ln: /dev/cdrom: File exists alpha:/home/mechanical# ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom ln: /dev/cdrom: File exists alpha:/home/mechanical# The same error occures when I switch th

Re: ide cdrom -> scsi emu problems

I just set up using SCSI emulation for my IDE CD drive with 2.2.18pre21 kernel. I have a couple of thoughts which might help. When you change emulations your drive stops being /dev/hdd (for example) and starts being /dev/scd0 -- or at least, that's how you need to access it. You need to edit /et

Re: ide cdrom -> scsi emu problems

Since you are in SCSI emulation, you need to change softlink: /dev/scd0 ->/dev/cdrom (check dmsg to be sure) Actually, you do not need to recompile kernel to get ide-scsi to work. Debian default kernel has module support. Enable them by adding following line in lilo.conf append="hdc=id

Re: ide cdrom -> scsi emu problems

To quote Jerrud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, # [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mount /cdrom # mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, #or too many mounted file systems #(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition, #instead of some logical partition inside?) # [EMA

ide cdrom -> scsi emu problems

This pretty much goes along side the "CDROM device" question asked by William Leese earlier on the list, but I have troubles too ;-) I recompiled my kernel (2.4.1) last night to include support for my new cd writer, but now that i have done that, the switch to IDE to SCSI emulation has changed