Robert Rati wrote: > > I got a SCSI DVD drive for my computer to use as my CD-rom drive and > expand to DVD in the future. Well,it gets detected just find but it's > device name is /dev/sr0 (it's the first device on the chain). Shouldn't > it be /dev/scd0 since it's basically a cd-rom drive? When I mount > /dev/sr0 I can't use a file system format. I can mount it alright, but > not using a filesystem to mount it has me a little worried since it's not > an ext2 filesystem. In fact, it fails the first time I try and mount it > and resets the SCSI bus. My guess was because the drive was sinning up > or something. Can anyone tell me why the drive is /sev/sr0, why I > don't need a filesystem to mount the drive, or why I'm having that oddity > the first time I try and mount the drive? TIA.
Well.. I can't tell you why it is coming up as /dev/sr... however... since it is a CD, it won't have multiple partitions... so you should be accessing it as /dev/sr not /dev/sr0. As to the filesystems... try: mount -t iso9660 /dev/<whatever> <mountpoint> since iso9660 is the cd filesystem type. atleast, if I remember it correctly Anyone else? --Evan
