Re: How to make cdrom drive work???

[Tim Gimmel <tim@gimmel.org>]

See the CD-Rom Howto!
Will have to use mknod to make the device nodes needed for CDrom.

Tim


On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> My son got me for Christmas a very used external NEC CDrom drive which I would
> like to make work on my Sun IPX.  
> 
> The computer seems to detect it, but ?????   From the /var/log/messages:
> 
> ...
> scsi : 1 host
> 	Vendor: NEC  Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:501 ....
> 	Type: CD-ROM
> Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, ...
> scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
> esp0: disconnect, resetting bus
> esp0: Resetting scsi bus
> esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
> esp0: SCSI bus reset interrupt
> esp0: Warning, live target 1 not responding to select
> esp0: Warning, live target 1 not responding to select
> sr0: disc change detected
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
> ....
> 
> when I attempt to mount the cdrom with
> 	mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
> I receive the message
>  	mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist
> 
> Sure enough, there is no sr0 in /dev.
> 
> Suggestions?  
> 
> Thanks
> Alan
> 
> 
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