I need to mount a floppy drive, optical drive, jumpdrive & burning CD's.
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I need to mount a floppy drive, optical drive, jumpdrive & burning CD's.
I'm running SuSE Linux 11.0 KDE version 3.5. I have two IDE hard drives that are detected as SCSI drives. Both of those drives optical drives. I have been able to format and mount the secondary hard drive, but I have had no luck with the optical drives.
I have tried many steps.
Could anybody out there give me a hand. Every time I try to mount a drive through command line, I end up having to repair the operating system.
Also, I am trying to mount a jumpdrive and burn a CD as well. Even in the GUI, it doesn't recognize the jumpdrive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I know how to use vi pretty good and I am learning some scripting, but I am still relatively new to Linux command line editing.
Here's the model's of the optical drives and the make of the jump drive
I am running an LG DVD-ROM Model GDR-H30N (S/N: 709HTBH195381) ROM version 1.00 as Secondary Master. As a secondary slave, I am running an Lite-ON CD-RW Model LTR-24102B drive. Both are IDE. Also, I am running a SanDisk U3 Jump Drive 8GB.
Location: Fleury-les-Aubrais, 120 km south of Paris
Distribution: Devuan, Debian, Mandrake, Freeduc (the one I used to work on), Slackware, MacOS X
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Totally confused
I don't understand at all your set. Could you write a sort of scheme showing each device, where it's physically attached and what is its behaviour under Linux?
The LG DVD ROM drive is on the Secondary Master chain on the outer part of the cable and the inner part is the Secondary Slave of the ribbon cable; the CDRW drive. They are both jumpered correctly. They are using only 40-pin IDE ribbon cables because they don't require the 80-pin.
When I go into the Linux GUI, it reports that both drives are recognized when there is an optical disk in the drives.
The DVD ROM drive is mounted in the GUI as /dev/sr0 in the /media folder. It detects it as a mounted CD writer. The CDRW drive is in /media/disk when checking through the GUI and the node is /dev/sr1. According to cat /var/log/messages and scrolling through, it says that they both use the ISO 9660 extensions (Microsoft Joilet Level 3 and RRIP_1991A)
The floppy drive is /dev/fd0. I did not have time to get to the Jump Drive, but it is detected when I check in /var/log/messages. It even detects the right type, but not in the GUI.
If you need more information, please let me know what you need.
I got most of the problem solved, but not all of them.
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Originally Posted by Stéphane Ascoët
So what's the problem?
It took me about two weeks but I finally got the DVD ROM drive to read through the command line of mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media
I also mounted only read only the jump drive. I still am trying to figure out how to burn a CD through command line, but that's not the problem I am having right now.
I purchased a HP Deskjet D2530 inkjet printer. I went through the setup script provided by HP, checked my dependencies, and made it all the way to where Linux recognizes the driver.
However, when I go to print from an application, like open office, all I get is the power light blinking and no printing.
Should I try the manual install method and forget the script?
Location: Fleury-les-Aubrais, 120 km south of Paris
Distribution: Devuan, Debian, Mandrake, Freeduc (the one I used to work on), Slackware, MacOS X
Posts: 251
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Burning
To burn you must use cdrtools, or its remplacement(I don't remember the name).
I don't know nothing about non-Postscript printers. The first thing you have to know is which printer manager you are using(probably CUPS), and read documentation about it.
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