Complete newbie here. but no pc newbie. I installed suse 8.1 via their ftp. Successfully configure my lan and geforce4. When linux boots, i can see somewhere "pioneer dvr-104 dvd-rw" and "hl dt something cd-rw". So far so good, it's my dvdrw and cdrw drives. In kde3 I can read cds from both drives and dvds from the dvdrw.
But In <control center -- Information -- availabale hardware> and in <YaST2 -- hardware information> everything is confused, the names are a mix of both drives, can't set anything about the dvdrw. Mplayer says there is no /dev/dvd.
How could I delete any references to my optical drives so that on next boot linux would reconfigured them properly? hopefully.
One last thing, how can I see my winxp ntfs partitions? I can't mount them, they doesn't exist!
rid3r
12-15-2002, 12:19 AM
it gives you a chance to learn some Linux :)
I'll just give you some pointers (or confuse you even more)
# - means root , $ - means user
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1. If you installed Lilo:
$ cat /etc/lilo.conf
now look for a line:
append="hdc-ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi" - means your IDE drives will emulate SCSI (that's needed for recording)
if it's not there, you'll need a manual to edit it.
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2. If you installed Grub:
$ cat /etc/grub.conf
similar:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18 ro root=...(snip) hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
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3.If everything in it's palce:
# cdrecord -scanbus
will show you all your your CDRW and DVDRW (only if everything is correct, and they are emulating SCSI devices)
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4. Mountpoints:
$ ls /mnt
must show you floppy cdrom cdrom1
# mkdir winxp
# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp
the errors post here
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5. The devices:
$ ls -l /dev
look for: cdrom -> scd0
cdrom1 -> scd1
--at this point I am a newbie too not sure you may need a /dev/dvd
-- help us out here!
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6.1. About your NTFS partition:
# fdisk -l /dev/hda
DONT'T FORGET "-l" means "list"
6.2. Better yet:
# cat /etc/fstab
- filesystem table
must show you all your partitions, mountpoints, filesystem etc
look for:
/dev/hda1 /mnt/winxp ntfs defaults
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 rw, noauto ...
rw - read-write
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that's enought for beginning , $ eject /dev/cdrom
coughski
12-15-2002, 04:07 AM
SuSE 8.1 is confused about my drives too here is a print out of my scanbus if that helps:
I would appreciate any input the Manuals included with SuSE are weak!
Cough!
rid3r
12-15-2002, 01:16 PM
it doesn't look bad, now you may wanna check the CD-RW and DVD HOWTO-s. You'll find a lot of those.
Not so sure about DVD-RW.
yanikd
12-15-2002, 02:06 PM
OK, thanks rid3r.
here is my grub config:
root (hd0,3)
install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/stage1 d (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,3)/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit
and here is the cdrecord scan:
drecord 1.11a28 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.2.0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.6'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'PIONEER ' 'DVD-RW DVR-104 ' '1.32' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'HL-DT-ST' 'CD-RW GCE-8240B ' '1.07' Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
which is right. I assume this means the kernel is well configure? Now is there a way to correct the information in the control center and in yast2?
Can someone explain me why sometimes the drives reference is /dev/(dvd or cdrom), sometimes /media/cdrecord and sometime /dev/sg0....
for the winxp partition, when doing ls /mnt, i get :
. .. <--- point, space ,point ,point
for the ls -l/dev, i get no scdx, but a great number of sgx and srx.
finally, i can see my ntfs partition via the fdisk command, but not with the fstab command, which i can see cdrom, cdrom1, cdrecorder, cdrecorder1 in /media
with that said, thanks a lot rid3r, I feel I'm getting somewhere. I have about a million more question, but i'll just shut up for now!
mdwatts
12-15-2002, 03:30 PM
SuSE seems to get the drive assignments a little backwards.
I don't use SuSE, but I did post a suggestion on how to fix in this thread (http://linuxnewbie.org/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72043&highlight=cdrecorder).
See if it helps and adjust as necessary.
coughski
12-15-2002, 10:38 PM
Support knowledgebase (81_ide-scsi)
Applies to
SuSE Linux: Version 8.1
Symptom
Your computer is equipped with a CDRW drive and one or several "ordinary" CD drives. After installing SuSE Linux 8.1, the CD drives cannot be mounted.
Cause
Some modules are missing from the initrd.
From SuSE Linux 8.1 on, the CD drive support is no longer compiled and kept in the kernel, but implemented by way of modules (cdrom and ide-cd). As opposed to the module ide-scsi, those modules (cdrom and ide-cd) are not included in the Initrd. That is why the SCSI emulation reaches all drives and not only those listed in the kernel parameter hdX=ide-scsi.
Solution
Insert the modules cdrom and ide-cd in the variable INITRD_MODULES in the file
/etc/sysconfig/kernel
To do this, open the YaST Sysconfig Editor. Select Base-Administration -> Common-Basics -> initrd_modules and insert both modules before the module ide-scsi. Be careful not to remove any of the modules listed, since they are necessary for booting.
Now, execute as root user the command mk_initrd
To do this, start a terminal program like konsole or xterm and log in as root user with the command su -. Then enter the command mk_initrd. If your boot manager is LILO, reinstall it with the command lilo -v. This does not apply for GRUB. From SuSE Linux 8.1 on, GRUB is the standard boot loader.
Keywords: CD, DVD, LINK, MOUNT, WRONG, FS, INPUT, OUTPUT, ERROR, 81
Categories: Hardware
SDB-81_ide-scsi, Copyright SuSE Linux AG, Nürnberg, Germany - Version: 09. Oct 2002
SuSE Linux AG - Last generated: 16. Oct 2002 by ip (sdb_gen 1.40.0)
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/81_ide-scsi.html
Found at SuSE KB
Cheers
Cough
yanikd
12-15-2002, 11:51 PM
Your computer is equipped with a CDRW drive and one or several "ordinary" CD drives. After installing SuSE Linux 8.1, the CD drives cannot be mounted.
Is a DVD-RW an ordinary cd drive? I'll still try it, but I don't expect much result since I can mount them (didn't try dvd-video, but dvd-mp3 works fine) i just want to see them correctly configured in suse control center and in yast2, and also be able to burn something.
What about dvd recording software? I checked out dvdrecord, but there seems to have no GUI available. helloooo, where almost in 2003 here... would nero burning rom works under wine? that would be great.
aside from that, last year I tried red hat, then went back to win2000 because I had to much trouble reading some mpeg and avi divx files and I though < men, if only I could read those damn files, I could completely eradicate windows from my hd> . The year before was a sound card problem, And now that it reads the video file correctly without any config and set up my sound card just fine, I think <men, if only there was a great cd/dvd recording program, I could....>
It seems there is always one thing keeping me from deleting windows. I hope one day I will, And when this day comes, I swear I'll get a linux bumper sticker : )
ash.ln
12-30-2002, 01:48 AM
I am in the same position as yanikd. No newbie to PCs but to linux. I also started with SuSE but an older version 6.0 that wouldn't work (at the time). So a newer ver should right...he he he.... I want it to, I need it to :)
So here is what I have come up with
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XXXXX:~ # mount /dev/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
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XXXXX:~ # ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Dec 29 17:32 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sr0
XXXXX:~ # ls -l /dev/cdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Dec 11 23:42 /dev/cdrecorder -> sr0
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I checked my etc/sysconfig for the ide-scsi module and it is there per-se from the SuSE online support database.
I use an account with sudo privies and I have also tried as root. I have deleted the links "cdrom" and "cdrecorder" from /mnt/dev/ and tried
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
ln -s /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrecorder
but tjat did not work either.
I am stumped. I have also tried mount -t 9660 /media/cdrom but that did not work. Know I am missing something simple and it is because I have been brain washed by another OS. Once I can "see" the relationships with linux and the hardware it should be easy, but I need to learn a lot. Thanks :)
Ash :confused:
Not confused any more..... I deleted my links to cdrom and cdrecorder and then re-linked them after I added the IDE and IDE-CDROM modules in the /etc/sysconfig/ base apps..... Now the CD-Recorder works but not the CD-ROM ... silly machine
Ash
bandwidth_pig
12-30-2002, 10:41 PM
Seems to me the DVD-RW is not a ordinary drive, although I find it intriguing that your system spotted the fact that it is a Pioner and the model. I had asked about DVD buring in Linux a while back and it seems to me that MD Watts had advised that a upgrade to the 2.5 kernel was necessary (hope you don't mind me quoting you Watts...you always give such good advice). So...you may want to examine the change logs for the 2.5 kernel. You may need to upgrade.
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