[ILUG] CDROM mount problems (major and minor numbers)

[Conor Daly]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:47:43AM +0100 or thereabouts, Mark Kilmartin wrote:
> I could be totally wrong here but.
> Am I correct in thinking that you are trying to mount the CD in the
> writer?

That problem was actually Gerard's rather than mine though, from the error
he reports, it looks like he's trying to mount the CDROM (/dev/hdc) rather 
than the writer (hdd=ide-scsi)

> If so I believe that after inserting the ide-scsi module the drive will
> nolonger be available under hdd any more.
> But will now be available as a SCSI cdrom under something like /dev/scd#
> Where # will be a number probably 0.

That's likely true but it seems here that the CDROM becomes unavailable
under hdc.  IIRC, my /dev/cdw (the writer) points to /dev/scd0 or the like.
 
> > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 12:11:33PM +0100 or thereabouts, Gerard Gorman wrote:
> > > Well the cdrwiter is on hdd (hdd=ide-scsi users etc). My cdwriting is
> > > perfect. Now this is where it gets really weird. If I try to mount a
> > > data cd I get the error;
> > > mount: /dev/hdc has wrong major or minor number
> > > ...but of I pop in a audio cd and start up xplaycd, there is no problems
> > > seeing/reading the cd!!

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