problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Bill Day]

Keith, possibly is the mount points belonging to root group a problem for
mounting them..  maybe users be a better choice?

I aint got a clue on the rest, yet to experience them.

Bill Day

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Antoine" <kantoine at bigpond.net.au>
To: <linux-users at linux-sxs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:26 PM
Subject: problems with enabling cdrom drives


> What it biols down to is my total lack of comprehension of devfs and its
workings.
> Although there could be something else stuffing the works up.
>
> I have installed, very recently, Mandrake 9.1 and evrything went smoothly
except
> for my TV card (hauppage pctv 250) no drivers as yet.
>
> I found tonight that I cannot access any of my cd drives or floppy at all.
>
> fstab entries:
> none /mnt/cdrom supermount
dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> none /mnt/floppy supermount
dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
>
> When called from a terminal:
> [root at cpe-203-45-133-237 mnt]# cd cdrom
> bash: cd: cdrom: Input/output error
> [root at cpe-203-45-133-237 mnt]# cd cdrom2
> bash: cd: cdrom2: Input/output error
>
> permissions:
> drwxr-xr-x    9 root     root         4096 May 23  2000 mnt/
>
> and inside:
>
> drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Apr 22 19:00 cdrom/
> drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Apr 22 19:00 cdrom2/
> drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Apr 22 19:00 floppy/
> drwxrwxrwx   14 root     root         4096 Dec 31  1969 win_c/
> drwxrwxrwx   93 root     root         8192 Dec 31  1969 win_d/
> drwxrwxrwx    6 root     root         8192 Dec 31  1969 win_E/
> dr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root         4096 Apr 11 08:50 win_F/
>
> I need to setup acess to 'dvd' as well and delete cdrom2 as that is my dvd
writer.
> Lastly I have a need to setup an access point for my camera card reader,
but I
> have no idea how to setup entries in /etc/devfs.conf. I have looked for
something
> simple to guide me but there is a dearth of info online, or I am looking
at the wrong things.
>
> --
> Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
> 18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161
> Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in
storage
>
>
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