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No Spam

2004-03-20, 2:37 pm

Is there utility for redhat linux 9 that can do a search for a hard drive
device such as the cdrom, my cdrom is detected as ide0 on dmesg but I am
unable to mount it with whatever command I use /dev/hda../dev/hda1....14
does nothing it keeps saying no such block device, I am wondering if there
is a utility that can ssearch the comp and possibly locate the real hda...
on which the cdrom is located

thanks


Robert M. Riches Jr.

2004-03-20, 8:32 pm

In article <kN07c.32884$F.53@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>, No Spam wrote:
> Is there utility for redhat linux 9 that can do a search for a hard drive
> device such as the cdrom, my cdrom is detected as ide0 on dmesg but I am
> unable to mount it with whatever command I use /dev/hda../dev/hda1....14
> does nothing it keeps saying no such block device, I am wondering if there
> is a utility that can ssearch the comp and possibly locate the real hda...
> on which the cdrom is located


Where does symbolic link /dev/cdrom point? That's usually
the quickest way to see, _if_ it's right.

Do 'grep --context 3 hd /var/log/dmesg' (without the quote
marks). Or, look in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf for 'CDROM'.
Also, poke around in /proc in branches with names like 'bus'
and 'ide'.

Good luck.

Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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