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Re: A tough one for Wizzards

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Balazs NAGY)
Tue Jan 27 14:44:45 1998

Date: 	Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:10:32 +0000
From: Balazs NAGY <bnagy@ibm.net>
Reply-To: nagy@ibm.net
To: Andres Petralli <petralla@arpanet.ch>
CC: linux-scsi <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>

Andres Petralli wrote:

> Achim Steinmetz wrote:
>
> > Balazs NAGY <bnagy@ibm.net> writes:
> >
> > > # mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom
> >
> > I always mount my cdrom as /dev/hdb *without* any number behind the
> > "b". Ok, I use eIDE, but I can't believe that this should be different
> > with SCSI devices...
> >
> > Maybe it's that simple ;-)
>
> Belive me! It's *completely* different! IDE has nothing in common with SCSI.
>
> Let's have that cleared.
>
> Andres Petralli - Arpa Networks

to be more straightforvard - try:

# mount /dev/scd /cdrom

you'll get:

mount: special device /dev/scd does not exist

my question is really for wizzards, if you don't have lots
of years of system management exp with Linux please keep your
comments!

Cheers,

            Balazs

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