[bignester]

now how do change the name to dvd instead of cdrom and also
how do i get my system to recognize the cdrw

thanx for reading

[Dolda2000]

I don't want to complain, but, for the third time: Do you have SCSI emulation turned on, and if so, on what drives?

[bignester]

nope i dont that is scsi emulation

[Dolda2000]

Are you absolutely sure about that? It would explain a whole lot. What does "cdrecord -scanbus" return?

[bignester]

Password:
root@nester:/home/adam# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J?rg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI dr
iver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
root@nester:/home/adam#


thats what it returns

[Dolda2000]

OK, then. That makes it very strange instead. Anyway, I think you might already have a file called /dev/dvd. If you don't, just create it with "ln -s hdc /dev/dvd".
You will need SCSI emulation to use your CD-RW (you can read from it without, but you'll need it to write with it). See the CD-Writing HOWTO on tldp.org for information on how to do that.
But first off the original problem still remains to be solved, right? What happens if you run "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" with a disc in the DVD? Also, if it fails, check your /var/log/messages for any errors from the kernel.

[bignester]

it works finally i watched a dvd on linux last night and it looked excellant

thanx for you help

just one more question though

how do you turn on scsi emulation for the cdrw

[Dolda2000]

There are two steps. First, you'll need to make sure that the writer isn't claimed by the usual IDE CDROM driver, by adding "ide-scsi=hdd" to you kernel command line at boot. If your boot loader is GRUB, add it to the end of the "kernel" line in your /boot/grub/grub.conf.

Then, you need to load the actual SCSI emulation layer, by running "modprobe sr_mod". You can also make sure that it is loaded automatically by adding "alias block-major-11 sr_mod" to your /etc/modules.conf.

Then run cdrecord -scanbus, to see if it reports your writer.

[bignester]

sorry to bother yall with this resolved topic but something else has happened

first off something happened to my os so i had to reinstall

heres what i have in my fstab

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,ro,gid=users 0 0

and here is the error message when i try to mount the drive

wrong fs type, bad option, bad supper block on /dev/scd0, or too many mounted file systems

as far as i know i have the same options turned on as i did before why would it do this now

when i run cdrecord -scanbus i detects it just fine

[Dolda2000]

I can't see any FS type in that line?