[101616] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Hi speed CD-ROM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles Galpin)
Fri Nov 27 20:25:04 1998
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 1998 20:21:15 -0500
From: Charles Galpin <cgalpin@lighthouse-software.com>
To: Adrian Saidac <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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you migth not actually have it mounted properly. I learnt a neat way of
ensuring this (from this list of course).
unmount the cdrom, and make sure it is not mounted
cd /cdrom
touch IM_NOT_MOUNTED
cd ..
mount the cdrom
ls /cdrom
if you see the file IM_NOT_MOUNTED, then your mount failed
hth
charles
===== Original Message from Adrian Saidac <redhat-list@redhat.com> at
11/27/98 7:58 pm
>Dear "help hand",
>I believe I was not explained myself very well!
>I DO HAVE allof the settings properly set, I can do a "cd /cdrom", I can ls
>/cdrom -bu I CAN NOT see any files. Is my understanding that hi speed
>CD-ROMs do have a special settins to compensate for the internal buffer.
>This is the problem I have - any ideas?
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ramon Gandia [mailto:rfg@nook.net]
>> Sent: Thursday, November 26, 1998 5:51 PM
>> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: Hi speed CD-ROM
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Adrian Saidac wrote:
>> >
>> > Has anybody any idea how I can make a 32x CD-ROM to work with 5.1?
>> > I have all the proper settings including the "9660", I can
>> mount but I CAN
>> > NOT see any files oh the disk!
>>
>> The mount command does not give error messages when it fails
>> to mount for some reasons, but gives error messages for others.
>>
>> Here is what you should have in order to mount.
>>
>> 1. There should be an entry in /etc/fstab, something like
>> this:
>>
>> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
>>
>> The "mount point, of course, is /mnt/cdrom.
>>
>> 2. The mount point has to exist. It does not by default, so you
>> have to create it. As root, go to the base directory, /, and
>> look.
>>
>> The directory /mnt has to exist. Then look in /mnt and the
>> directory /mnt/cdrom has to exist. If they do not you need
>> to create them, in order. Like this
>>
>> mkdir /mnt
>> mkdir /mnt/cdrom
>>
>> 3. The CDROM can now be mounted. With the above entyr in
>> /etc/fstab
>> you simply do
>>
>> mount /mnt/cdrom
>>
>> Now you should be able to go there and see the file listings.
>>
>> cd /mnt/cdrom
>>
>> 4. If the /etc/fstab file does not have the cdrom line in it,
>> you can still mount the CD. You can either add the line, or
>> you can mount manually without the benefit of the fstab entry:
>>
>> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>>
>> 5. If you have compiled a kernel, be advised that in RH 5.1 and
>> on it is somewhat obscure how to include iso9660 support in the
>> kernel. If you do not have support for iso9660, then its not
>> going to work. However, the default kernel supplied by RedHat
>> *has* support for iso9660.
>>
>> Let us know where things stop working in the list of steps above.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
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