I have an external USB cd recorder (a regular IDE drive stuck in a USB
case). With slack 9 I could plug it in and just
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and read it that way. Either /mnt/cdrom
or /mnt/hdc would work. In slack 10.1 I can't mount the drive, but
cdrecord sees it and I can write to it just fine. I'm confused as to what
changed here, I can try to specify any file system type and nothing works.

Eugene Nine wrote:

> I have an external USB cd recorder (a regular IDE drive stuck in a USB
> case). With slack 9 I could plug it in and just
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and read it that way. Either /mnt/cdrom
> or /mnt/hdc would work. In slack 10.1 I can't mount the drive, but
> cdrecord sees it and I can write to it just fine. I'm confused as to what
> changed here, I can try to specify any file system type and nothing works.

How are you trying to mount the drive? The device location should
be /dev/sda because the USB drive will be registered as a SCSI device. You
can do a dmesg | grep <cd model> to see where the kernel created the block
device in /dev and mount as usual.

Hope that helps,

Gecko

Le Sun, 08 Jan 2006 20:10:07 -0500, Eugene Nine a écrit*:

> I have an external USB cd recorder (a regular IDE drive stuck in a USB
> case). With slack 9 I could plug it in and just
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and read it that way. Either /mnt/cdrom
> or /mnt/hdc would work. In slack 10.1 I can't mount the drive, but
> cdrecord sees it and I can write to it just fine. I'm confused as to what
> changed here, I can try to specify any file system type and nothing works.


You should test these possibilities for device attribution:

If your cdrecord -scanbus lists ATA or PATA:
/dev/hdc
/dev/hdd

(BTW, what gives cdrdao scanbus ?)

Else, these should be the ones:

/dev/sr0
/dev/sg0
/dev/sda
/dev/sdB
....

Sorry if it looks a bit vague and wide but you didn't print any
info about what you could see in /var/log/messages ans /var/log/syslog
that was logged when you plugged the device ...

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Eugene Nine wrote:

> I have an external USB cd recorder (a regular IDE drive stuck in a USB
> case). With slack 9 I could plug it in and just
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and read it that way. Either /mnt/cdrom
> or /mnt/hdc would work. In slack 10.1 I can't mount the drive, but
> cdrecord sees it and I can write to it just fine. I'm confused as to what
> changed here, I can try to specify any file system type and nothing works.

it must be /dev/sr0 as a SCSI cdrom

rusty_dm

rusty_dm wrote:

> On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Eugene Nine wrote:
>
>> I have an external USB cd recorder (a regular IDE drive stuck in a USB
>> case). With slack 9 I could plug it in and just
>> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and read it that way. Either /mnt/cdrom
>> or /mnt/hdc would work. In slack 10.1 I can't mount the drive, but
>> cdrecord sees it and I can write to it just fine. I'm confused as to
>> what changed here, I can try to specify any file system type and nothing
>> works.
>
> it must be /dev/sr0 as a SCSI cdrom
>
> rusty_dm
ahh, thats why, I'm trying sda/b/c/d.
PEBKAC error, thanks all who replied