On Thursday 23 December 2004 22:23, Mehdi Bouhalassa wrote: >> [root@iq mehdi]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdc /media/cdrecorder >> mount: special device /dev/sdc does not exist > >Not working... > > :-( > >It's so frustrating! I really want to switch to Fedora, but what's > the point if I keep going back to XP? First, you are nameing the whole drive with the above, whhere normally the partitions are named sdc1, sdc2 etc in the order they exist on the drive. Look in a file that is refreshed at every boot, called /var/log/dmesg. Use the command line: less /var/log/dmesg to see it, and scan down towards the end of the file looking for how it recognized the drive. If there are more than 1 partition on it, these will show up as sda2, sda3 etc in addition to sda1. A second drive will be in the sdb series, etc etc. You may have to do an 'insmod name_of_scsi_module' on the scsi driver, in which case if successfull, those messages will show up right on the console window you ran insmod from. In any event, scsi support will need to be added to the kernel by adding an alias in the /etc/modprobe.conf file. It should look something like: alias scsi your_adaptor_boards_driver_name Getting started, when in an unfamiliar environment can be frustrating. Hang in there. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.30% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
