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Re: CD-ROM Question + Bash Curio
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David J Porter)
Fri Oct 23 15:02:10 1998
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 07:34:02 +1300
From: David J Porter <porterd@netaccess.co.nz>
Reply-To: Porterd@netaccess.co.nz
To: timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su
CC: "Linux, RedHat" <redhat-digest@redhat.com>, redhat-list@redhat.com
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timsoftware@liposome.genebee.msu.su wrote:
>
> On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, David J Porter wrote:
>
> > Firstly, I'm having some difficulties with my Panasonic [SBPCD] CD-ROM in
> > that it works fine for audio CD playing, as well as for reading directories
> > of data CD's, but get errors trying to access any of the files on them.
> > This same drive has worked flawlessly for the last few years, well, until
> > now... Does this seem to indicate a hardware or software problem?
> I was working with that cdrom. My Slackware96 was detecting it not as 1
> drive as as 4 drives. I haven't managed to win that battle with cd-rom.
> Nevertheless it was working when I typed:
> mount /dev/spbcd /cdromdirestory -t iso9660
> I hope that will work.
Tried that, and the interesting thing is that it returned an error which 'mount
/mnt/cdrom' doesn't when not root. The /etc/fstab entry is:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0
But the major thing is that typing 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/sbpcd /mnt/cdrom' as
root mounts the CD-ROM _and_ allows access to its data! So I'm completely
baffled as to what the difference is. Hmm, the only difference I can see is
that /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/sbpcd. dir shows:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Aug 9 16:07 /dev/cdrom -> sbpcd
brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 25, 0 Jul 13 1994 /dev/sbpcd
Not quite the same!? Could this be causing some trouble?
> BTW Atapi Ide Cd-roms are much better!
I don't doubt it! But all things being equal, two kids, wife, mortgage
payments, etc, seem to be always more pressing than my need to get a new
CD-ROM. But then keeping this archaic system [VESA-i486DX] running is starting
to become something of a black art, but when replacing like for like, the parts
are almost free these days.
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