I have an old Kodak CD Writer that I am trying to get working on Slackware 9.1 So far I have tried the following...

As root I created a new directory "mkdir /mnt/cdwriter"
Then "ln -sf /dev/sr1 /dev/cdwriter"
Then I edited my /etc/fstab file and added the line:

/dev/cdwriter /mnt/cdwriter vfat,udf,ISO9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

Then I tried to mount it with a CD in the drive using "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdwriter /mnt/cdwriter"

I got an error saying "mount: /dev/cdwriter is not a valid block device"

Does anybody know what I am doing wrong? I have read documentation and this is all I can come up with.

Thanks.

try /dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb1 instead of /dev/sr1....

one more thing, try dmesg and see the messages related to yr cd writer..

Maybe try All the linking and whatnot is for the SCSI emulation to allow burning, but since you only want to test if the drive is functional as a reader, you do not need to use SCSI emulation for a reader (BTW: Lilo will need you to add 'append HDX=IDE-SCSI' line, then the device can be setup for burning).

Hi again,

I have been trying for a couple of days now with no success. My SuSE CD's are starting to look mighty tempting, but I really want to stick with this, I've learned a lot already.

Anyway I have tried what you both suggested, and read even more documentation with no luck. The dmesg output relating to my CD-ROM drives was this. I'm not sure how much of it is relevent, I certainly have no DVD drives.

hdc: LTN526S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: CR-4804TE, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA

I have some things I would like to backup so this is getting to be a problem. I would really appreciate any help, thanks.

it seem yr cdwriter is assign to /dev/hdd...

do you using scsi emulation for your cdwriter? if yes pls check on kernel config & make sure scsi emulation is selected. and also pls make sure in yr /etc/lilo.conf file having this line (edit it as root)

append hdd=ide-scsi.

after you made the modification on lilo.conf, you need to execute (root)

lilo

You need much more than that.

You need scsi emulation, and like others wrote set hdd=ide-scsi in lilo. You also need to edit /etc/modules.conf to add some kernel modules for scsi emulation.

Just RTFM:
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...ing-HOWTO.html

Especially this chapter:
2. Setup the Linux-system for writing CD-ROMs

Good luck.