Re: CD stops working

[Erich Schroeder <erich@museum.state.il.us>]

Well, I have it working now, I had to follow Jordan's lead and link the
/dev/cdrom to the scsi device /dev/scd0 where it was originally linked to
hdc. 

Thanks all for your help.

eks

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Jordan Bettis wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> > 
> > > Erich Schroeder said:
> > > > This is an IDE CD-RW drive. Running the
> > > > command "cdrecord -scanbus" still correctly finds the drive, although it
> > > > is finding it through the scsi drivers.
> > > 
> > > "rmmod ide-scsi" will probably magically fix it.
> > 
> > It magically changes things, but not fixing them yet. Now I get:
> > 
> > [root@vrmuseum ]# mount /mnt/cdrom
> > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
> 
> /dev/cdrom is a symlink to the real device. If you're using IDE, it'll be
> /dev/hd[abcd] where the last letter is dependent on where it is on your IDE
> chain, for instance, my cdrom is in the secondary slave position, so if I do
> ls -l /dev/cdrom, I get:
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Jun 17 21:06 /dev/cdrom -> hdd
> 
> Try deleting your /dev/cdrom symlink and doing:
> ln -s /dev/hd[abcd] /dev/cdrom
> 
> where [abcd] is the approprate letter for your cdrom..
> 
> -- 
> Jordan Bettis <http://www.hafd.org/~jordanb/>
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