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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Strange hdc & hdd switch
From:       ejbr () comcast ! net
Date:       2004-12-02 20:32:45
Message-ID: 200412021532.45867.ejbr () comcast ! net
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On Thursday 02 December 2004 02:23 pm, you wrote:
> quoth the ejbr@comcast.net:
> > I have a CDROM drive and a CDRW one.   If I put a CD into the CDROM
> > drive and try to mount it - mount /dev/cdrom - I get no "medium
> > found." However, if I "mount /dev/cdrw", it mounts, and vice-versa. 
> > That is, the devices are switched.  The CD is the master, and the
> > CDRW the slave.
> >
> > At the POST, the drives are recognized correctly at "Detecting IDE
> > Drives" - something like:
> >
> > TOSHIBA DVD-ROM Secondary Master
> > CDW5E    CD/DVD    Secondary Slave
> >
> > At boot, everything's also correct.  From dmesg:
> >
> > hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > hdd: CD-W58E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> > hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> > hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1280kB Cache, DMA
> >
> > From /dev:
> >
> > [Thu Dec 02] edj:/dev$ ll cd*
> > lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 13 Dec  2 11:53 cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0
> > lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 13 Dec  2 11:53 cdrw -> cdroms/cdrom1
> >
> > cdroms:
> > total 0
> > drwxr-xr-x  1 root root  0 Dec 31  1969 .
> > drwxr-xr-x  1 root root  0 Dec 31  1969 ..
> > lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 33 Dec 31  1969 cdrom0
> > -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
> > lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 33 Dec 31  1969 cdrom1
> > -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd
> >
> > [Thu Dec 02] edj:/dev$ ll hd*
> > lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 30 Dec  2 11:53 hdc ->
> > ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
> > lr-xr-xr-x  1 root root 30 Dec  2 11:53 hdd ->
> > ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd
> >
> > As far as I can tell, all that looks OK - but maybe not.  A review of
> > the above and any advice greatly appreciated.  Thanks a lot.
>
> Dev enties look fine to my tired eyes... are they reversed in
> /etc/fstab?

I don't  think so:

/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom   iso9660  noauto,ro,user,exec   0 0
/dev/cdrw         /mnt/cdrw     iso9660  noauto,ro,user,exec   0 0

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Ed Jabbour

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