[ltp] Using external CD drive on 570

[Shigeo Tanai]

At 18:06 00/06/02 +0300, Ilya Caramishev wrote:
>
>Shigeo Tanai wrote:
>
>> At 12:57 00/06/02 +0300, Ilya Caramishev wrote:
>> >
>> >I'm running Debian 2.0 with kernel 2.2.14 on TP570.
>> >Recently I bought Portable Drive Bay with Ultrabay CD-ROM drive and I
>> >want to use it with Linux.
>> >This Drive Bay comes with PCMCIA IDE adapter. Module ide-cs from
>> >pcmcia-cs package get loaded OK but it looks like some more modules
>> >required. Anybody has any experience with using any IDE devices in
>> >Portable Drive Bay?
>>
>> Module ide-cd, perhaps.  Try compling it as a module.
>>
>I've tried and it didn't help.
>
> [ snip -- lsmod output]
>
>but mount returns 'mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a
>block device'.
>
>Any suggestions?

Take a look into /proc/ide.  You probably now have ide2.
Dig a little more into /proc/ide/ide2.  Is there hde?
That is your cdrom drive.  So use /dev/hde, not /dev/hdc.
You might want to adust your symbolic link for /dev/cdrom
accordingly.


Geo



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