[wellylug] Damn small Linux
andrej at paradise.net.nz
andrej at paradise.net.nz
Thu Jun 22 12:14:38 NZST 2006
Quoting "E.Chalaron" <e.chalaron at xtra.co.nz>:
> Thanks Andrej
>
> This is what I got under dmesg
>
> [root]# dmesg | grep -i CDROM
> sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
> cdrom: open failed.
>
>
> Anyway, being a good boy I do what I am told to a certain extent
>
> root at 1[root]# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
> root at 1[root]# mount /cdrom/
Well ... it would help if you checked whether dmesg has MORE info
about it; are you using the IDE-SCSI driver on it? Or is it an
actual SCSI device? Either way - you may want to try
ln -fs /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
since that's what dmesg seems to think the device is...
Cheers,
Andrej
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