I see you have append="hdc=ide-scsi" which is good. However you need to
also load the ide-scsi module, i.e. "modprobe ide-scsi". The drive will
then become something like /dev/scd0, not /dev/hdc.
HTH,
-- Rod
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On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, you wrote:
> hello all
>
> For some reason, I cannot get my CD writer to mount. Following is a snippet
> from my boot seuence and my fstab file... everything works but the
> writer... Please help!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Eric
>
> Linux version 2.2.14-15mdk (root@kenobi.mandrakesoft.com) (gcc version
> 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #1 Tue Jan 4 22:24:20 CET 2000
> Detected 400921828 Hz processor.
> ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> Calibrating delay loop... 799.54 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 127852k/131008k available (1092k kernel code, 412k reserved, 1588k
> data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
> Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
> Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k)
> Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k)
> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb220
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
> Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536)
> Initializing RT netlink socket
> Starting kswapd v 1.5
> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.9)
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd000-0xd007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd008-0xd00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> hda: WDC WD205AA, ATA DISK drive
> hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8200a, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: CD-ROM Drive/F5A, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: WDC WD205AA, 19569MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2494/255/63
> hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 857.250 MB/sec
> p5_mmx : 827.532 MB/sec
> 8regs : 561.213 MB/sec
> 32regs : 388.239 MB/sec
> using fastest function: pII_mmx (857.250 MB/sec)
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
> md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> Partition check:
>
> and here is my fstab file:
>
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/DOS_hda1 vfat user,exec,conv=auto 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda7 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat user,noauto 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0
> /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0
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