[ILUG] Modem and CDROM Problems

[Paul O'Neil]

First there might be a conflict with your mouse and modem so check that. And
I think you should mount your cdrom with [     mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc?
/cdrom     ]not hdd but take it out of /etc/fstab and play with it
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Murphy <murphytb at iol.ie>
To: ilug at linux.ie <ilug at linux.ie>
Date: Monday, June 07, 1999 3:01 PM
Subject: [ILUG] Modem and CDROM Problems


>I have two problems to overcome having set up the Caldera OpenLinux and
would be very obliged if you could set me on the right track. I do not have
much notion of the mechanics of computers but the following is information I
picked out in the hope that it may be enough to get me an answer.
>
>(1) I cannot get Linux to recognize my CDROM. The following is a resume of
the information I have gleaned and hope that it will be sufficient for
someone out there to assist.
>I have two hard drives and have devoted the second one D to Linux alone.
>
>On the BIOS SetUp Utility I see the following :
>Primary IDE Master [Quantum Fireball_TM3200A1]
>Primary IDE Slave [2160 MB]
>Secondary IDE Master [Philips CDD3610 CD-R/RW]
>Secondary IDE Slave [CD-ROM 24X/AKOx]
>
>
>On my computer the normal CDROM is on the H drive and the CDROM/R-R/W is on
the G drive.
>>From the boot script I see the following :
>
>Kernel: Initializing block devices <<<
>Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisk of 4096k size
>ide ..etc. etc. and then.......
>hda : Quantum Fireball etc.
>hdb: Maxtor 8216od2 etc.
>hdc: no response (status=OxdO),resetting drive
>hdc: Philips CDD3610 CD-R/RW, ATAPI CDROM drive
>ideO at O X 1fO -OX1f7,OX3f6 on irq 14
>ide 1 at O X 170 - OX177,)X376 on irq15.
>
>Kernel: Check disk partition tables
>Partition check:
>hda: hda1
>hdb: hdb1  hdb2
>
>& finally I looked in the etc/fstab to get the following:-
>
>/dev/hdb2 /ext2 defaults 0 1
>/proc /proc proc proc defaults 0 0
>/dev/hdb1 none swap defaults 0 0
>#
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 defaults, nonauto 0 0
>#
>/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro, noauto 0 0
>
>I hope the above information is sufficient to get an answer.
>
>
>The second problem is that I cannot connect to the modem. The internal
modem is connected to COM1 - but every time I go through Minicom -c to test
the connection I get the following:
>
>" Configuration file not found using defaults Device /dev/ttyS1 is locked"
>
>Any ideas as to what I need to do to correct the above ??
>
>
>Thanks for your assistance.
>
>Bernard Murphy
>7th.June 1999
>
>
>
>Download Neoplanet at http://www.neoplanet.com
>
>
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