SCSI CDRom

[dodgetrucs]

I am setting up a Linux email server at school and I need to access a program on a SCSI CDROM drive, although I booted off and installed Mandrake (Not my distro choice) with this drive, now that the system is up and pumping I can't find where to access the files. On my home box with a IDE hard drive its /mnt/cdrom and although thats a directory on the SCSI box, no files show when opened. The CD and drive are good. Is there a special mounting location for SCSI, anyone have any recomendations? Thanks!

[MBMarduk]

If you booted with a Bootable CDrom it's prolly mounted already somewhere like "/var/adm/mnt" by the setup proggy.
(Find out by typing just "mount" with nothing else)
--->So I'm implying you need to umount it and mount it where YOU want to.

BUT if it's NOT mounted anywhere already and "mount /dev/scdx /mnt" gives you an error message like "Error: blah blah blah. Maybe insmod module?" then the kernel's suggesting you try a module (if the standard kernel will TAKE one, that is!)

Keep me posted (if you're still busy with this @ school ;))

-Mike

[bdg1983]

Check the contents of /etc/fstab to see where and if the drive is mounted.

Post your fstab here if that would help.

[dodgetrucs]

Still trying to get it to work, here is the fstab file...
Its not mounted I don't think and am not sure how to mount devices or where it is now, to mount it, thanks for the help

/dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/sda8 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda7 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[bdg1983]

So you've inserting a data CD.

mount /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
ls -al

and nothing?

I have no experience using a actual SCSI CD in Linux as I've only used SCSI HD's or SCSI emulation for a IDE CD-Writer.

I would have thought the device for a SCSI CD would be something different than /dev/cdrom. Perhaps /dev/scd0 or sr1.

Have you searched around Mandrake for any SCSI documentation? I know of some here (http://linux.nf/stepbystep.htm) under 'CD Burners/SCSI'. May give you info on what device it should be.

Any desktop shortcut for the CD on KDE/Gnome or whatever Mandrake uses you can try and if it works, check the shortcut properties and see what device it uses? Just a thought...

[2thumbs]

Mandrake sometimes screws up with SCSI cd-roms/dvds/ect. The symlink /dev/cdrom it creates often points to the wrong device :rolleyes: . So either change the symlink to point to the right device, or change the fstab line from /dev/cdrom to the correct device :)

<edit> damn typos

[ 28 March 2001: Message edited by: 2thumbs ]