tryign to set up fstab with 2 cd drives

Tyir · 12-07-2003, 05:33 PM

Hi, it sort of works, I'm just not sure if this is what it is supposed to be like, so I want to confirm I'm doing this right....

The importnat lines in fstab are

Code:

/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,ro        0   0
/dev/cdrom1      /mnt/burner      iso9660     noauto,ro        0   0

And say i reboot, then put cds in
If i go to /mnt/cdrom or /mnt/burner, nothing is there
then, as root:
mount /mnt/cdrom
and
mount /mnt/burner
and then i can access my files

So would i need to put those two lines in a script (.xinitric or something) to run at startup?
Or is there a better way of setting them up.

Also, is this the correct way to set up the burner drive?
the cdrom is hdd and burner is hdc

Thanks

jpbarto · 12-07-2003, 06:01 PM

you got it pretty much right

however you can add an entry of user (user,noauto,ro)
that will allow users to mount the cd drive instead of just root.

Nis · 12-07-2003, 06:03 PM

Try adding 'user' after 'noauto'. This way any user can mount those drives and you don't have to become root. If you want them to be automatically mounted when you insert a CD, check out supermount or magicdev.

As for setting up your burner, you'll need to the load scsi emulation module. Add 'append hdc=ide-scsi' to your lilo.conf, run 'lilo -v' as root, and reboot. Your burner will then be /dev/sr0. Now type, as root, 'ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom1'. Hope this works for you.

Tyir · 12-07-2003, 06:20 PM

sr0 didnt seem to do anything, i tried scd0..
what does this mean?

Code:

root@MOFETTE:/mnt# ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom1
root@MOFETTE:/mnt# mount /mnt/burner
mount: /dev/cdrom1 is not a valid block device

Nis · 12-07-2003, 06:33 PM

What distro are you using right now? Slack or Red Hat? Also, what is the output of 'ls -l /dev/sr0'?

Tyir · 12-07-2003, 06:35 PM

Sorry, slackware

robert@MOFETTE:~$ ls -l /dev/sr0
brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 0 Apr 13 1999 /dev/sr0

Nis · 12-07-2003, 06:41 PM

Okay I just checked my system. /dev/scd0 works on my machine as well as /dev/sr0. I guess I got it wrong with /dev/sr0.

minio · 12-07-2003, 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tyir
mount: /dev/cdrom1 is not a valid block device

I get this message if i dont have ide-scsi support enabled. You must add

append="hdc=ide-scsi"

at he beginning of lilo.conf if it's not already here and run lilo (type lilo as root in console)
and reboot
(i don't know how about GRUB)

Tyir · 12-07-2003, 07:00 PM

Im using GRUB, but im pretty sure the equivalent is enabled....