James Wilkinson wrote:
<>> As others have said, this doesn't necessarily work!
> The problem was getting your CD-ROM to work.
> I asked:
> Can you do a > ls -l /dev | grep hdd
<> > and Gene replied:
> brw-rw---- 1 root disk 22, 64 Feb 22 01:31 hdd
<> > Right. Looks like the Linux kernel has detected that there is a drive > there, but udev hasn't made a cdrom symlink. That shouldn't be a > problem: I'll put a few trouble-shooting notes later.
> Gene said:
> Below are the messages extracted from dmesg:
<>> <snip>
>> And then further down:
> > hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Good.
Do I understand that you have neither a /media/cdrom mountpoint or a /mnt/cdrom mountpoint? (A "mountpoint" just being a directory).
Yes, I do have a /media/cdrom
Can you take a look in /media and in /mnt and work out where your other mount points for removable devices are? I suspect that they'll still be in /mnt (since this is an update in place).
I looked and both floppies are there also.
Unless you *want* to move them to /media, do a
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
(as root), then try
mount -o ro /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom Does that work? If not, do you get any error messages? Anything in
/var/log/messages?
That worked, but only after I put media in the drive.
If that works, can you check for a /dev/hdd line or a /dev/cdrom line in /etc/fstab. If none exist, something like this should work: /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,users 0 0
I looked that and it looks very similar, with additional parameters.
You would then have to mount and unmount the CD-ROM, but should be able to do this from a normal user's command prompt. You may find this Good Enough: it's the traditional Unix approach.
A 'normal' user can't mount the cdrom. I get a message that only root can mount using device /dev/hdd.
Troubleshooting udev: what do you have in /etc/udev/rules.d?
Do you have these three lines in /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:
# do not seperate the next 2 lines!!
KERNEL="hd[a-z]", BUS="ide", SYSFS{removable}="1", PROGRAM="/etc/udev/scripts/ide-media.sh %k", RESULT="floppy", SYMLINK="floppy%e", > NAME{all_partitions}="%k", NOREMOVE="1"
KERNEL="hd[a-z]", BUS="ide", SYSFS{removable}="1", RESULT="cdrom", SYMLINK="cdrom%e"
James.
I did not have any of those three lines, but I added them and re-booted. All seems well now (event if a normal user can't mount). This is my everyday desktop so I can su anytime to do a mount. I'm happy!
Gene etpoole@xxxxxxxxxxxx
