Re: [MLUG] Additional CD-ROM

[Jason McIntosh <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Um, there isn't such a thing as a secondary slave.  There's a "Master" 
and a "Slave" or two Cable Selects.  Or, on some newer harddrives, 
"Single" mode with no jumper.  Check your jumper settings - it sounds 
like they're both trying to be master or both trying to be slave.  
Chances are, this is purely a config issue.
As for the devices in linux, /dev/cdrom is just a pointer to /dev/hdaXX 
where XX is a letter representing the device.  Usually, you have a 
config like this:
/dev/hda - master IDE device on the 1st controller
/dev/hdb - slave IDE device on the 1st controller
/dev/hdc - master IDE device on the 2nd controller.  Usually /dev/cdrom 
is symbolically linked to this file
/dev/hdd - slave IDE device on the 3rd controller - usually /dev/cdrom2 
if it exists is linked to this file.

/dev/hdaX is the actual partition on the drive /dev/hda.  You'd thus 
fdisk /dev/hda and mount /dev/hda1 when doing drive operations.  So, 
for an fstab entry, you'd just add another line that's the near 
duplicate of your /dev/cdrom entry but change it to point to the other 
device, such as /dev/hdd
Jason

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On Aug 9, 2004, at 1:02 PM, EMAIL:PROTECTED wrote:

> Currently I am running a server at my house to host my music and web 
> files, it runs off SUSE 8.2 Pro.  When I first built the box I had put 
> an ACER 40x CD-ROM in one of my additional bays to do the install 
> with.  When I finished getting everything setup how I wanted I 
> realized that there was a gaping hole where the original CD-ROM had 
> been.  The case of my computer had a specially made CD-ROM to fit in 
> it.  So when I added in the original back in as a secondary slave, I 
> suddenly only see it on my hardware list.  My box won't find both 
> drive, and if it does it will only recognize the second.  Is there 
> something I can do to get both recognized?  fstab has the definition 
> for a single cdrom, but how would I define a second /dev/cdrom if I 
> have to go that way?
>
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