newbie can't cdrw

stevefiller · 04-18-2003, 08:18 AM

Another pathetic newbie. My father-in-law is in the process of convincing me to give Linux a try. So, I installed Redhat9 on a spare hard drive. I got most things working, but not my cdrw. When I try to mount the drive, the system hangs. The drive shows as scd0. It is an IDE drive on secondary, slave. The master is a reader which works fine.

I don't know enough to know what other info y'all need. The hardware works fine under windows.

Thanks!!!

AltF4 · 04-18-2003, 09:18 AM

cd writers are used in scsi emulation mode to work with burning programs, but should work like cd readers if you mount it (e.g.: mount -r /dev/scd0 /media/cdwriter)

stevefiller · 04-18-2003, 09:32 AM

When I try to mount the drive, the system hangs.

Also, if I boot up with a disk in the drive, the system hangs while waiting on DMA (it is listed in fstab for auto mounting, which works fine on my cdreader.)

jailbait · 04-18-2003, 04:36 PM

Your file called /etc/fstab should have a line describing your cd-rw. Could you post that line, or if necessary post the entire /etc/fstab.

quietguy47 · 04-18-2003, 08:58 PM

I have a cd and a cd-rw also, although I use Slackware 9.0.
In /etc/fstab I have a line for each drive, /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1.
I had to create a mount point for /dev/cdrom1 in /mnt.
I also had to make a soft link between /dev/hdd and /dev/cdrom1.
I hope this helps.

yowwww · 04-19-2003, 12:53 AM

try typing

cdrecord -scanbus in the terminal and see if your cdrw is listed.

Also, there is tons of info on red hat on my guide and also a section that shows you how to install k3b for red hat 9.

check it out - the link is in my signature below

good luck with it, be patient with it

if you need help, let me know