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Old 04-11-2004, 11:07 AM   #1
snwright
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setting up cdrom drive....


Got troubles. My cdrom drive was working up to the time that i purchased a new case and swapped all of my hardware into it. Basically, I have too many drives - cdrom, cdrw, and three hard drives. I installed fedora core 1 onto my system when i was running only two hard drives, and then added the third, a 120 gig drive, to replace the 30 gig drive that i started off on. somehow it went a little weird, though - i was able to add the new drive, but not remove the old one, and so now i'm stuck with three hard drives, making it impossible to run both my cd drives.
i think, though, that i'm just about ready to reinstall fedora, or maybe try a different system - i've run into a bunch of problems that i can't seem to fix, and i'm ready to start over, i think. i'm not too good at this, and fedora keeps on handing me these big problems - no c compiler installed has been the biggest so far. i figure i can at least reinstall and get rid of one of my hard drives, so i can use my burner and cdrom at the same time.
but somehow i lost my cdrom, and it's making it hard to do anything. i checked out my fstab, and my cdrom wasn't listed. so i added a line to make it look like this:

[snwright@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
[snwright@localhost ~]$

but on startup i see that /dev/cdrom is not a valid file or device. right now i have my cdrom drive plugged in as a single master (i unplugged my 120 gig drive to make this possible).
i don't get it. am i supposed to use mount? was i not supposed to edit my fstab?
thanks.
spencer
 
Old 04-11-2004, 01:34 PM   #2
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if you're going to switch distributions and don't want a problem with finding dependencies then I say go with Gentoo. However, why not try /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd for mounting them instead?
 
Old 04-11-2004, 02:35 PM   #3
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I think you answered your own question in the third sentence of your post - you've got too much stuff to all put into one PC. Most PC's have only 2 ribbon cables, each capable of supporting 2 devices, for a total of 4. You need to decide what mix of hard drives and CD's you want in your machine. Once you've done that, you then need to jumper everything correctly. If you go with 2 HD's and 2 CD's, I'd recommend that you do this:

primary master = HD
primary slave = CD-RW
secondary master = HD
secondary slave = CD

That's just me though, obviously you can rig it up however you want but the reason you'd want to put the CD's on different ribbon cables would be to avoid bottlenecks if you're trying to do an on-the-fly data transfer (burn) from one CD to the other. (Just like the freeway it's faster to 2 lanes instead of just one)

As for whether you stick with Fedora or go with something else, that's another decision you need to make. My recommendation would be to check out several, and then decide which you like best. Many of the most popular distros can be found here: www.linuxiso.org Good luck -- J.W.
 
Old 04-11-2004, 07:49 PM   #4
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Definitely play around with 'mount', and see if you can figure out which device your cdrom is. Easier to do it while booted up than by continually editing fstab and rebooting

-Laura
 
  


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