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Operating Systems SCO Problem setting up CD-ROM drive Post 302620969 by jdsnatl on Monday 9th of April 2012 02:52:14 PM

04-09-2012

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Problem setting up CD-ROM drive

Whenever I click the [Mount CD] icon on the SCO desktop, I get an error stating the following:

Cannot stat '/dev/cd0' no such device or address (error 6)

After looking around for a bit, it seemed like I just needed to run mkdev cdrom to setup the CD-ROM drive. I checked the BIOS settings to get the information I needed to get through the installation process. The device is listed as follows in the BIOS:

Controller: Serial ATA
Port: SATA-1
ID: HL-DT-ST CD-RW/DVD-ROM GCC-H10N

From that information, I ran mkdev cdrom and selected ATAPI. At this point, I've gone through the process setting the CD-ROM as both a master and a slave on the primary controller. Both times, I relinked, restarted, and got the same error when trying to mount a CD.

As you can probably surmise, I'm a bit out of my element here. Am I missing something? Am I trying to setup the CD-ROM drive using the wrong type? Just for kicks, I selected SCSI one time, and it started asking all kinds of questions that I had no idea about. Advice online indicated that the BIOS settings would contain those settings, but what I listed above is the only information available regarding the CD-ROM drive.

Also, each time I tried installing the CD-ROM drive and rebooted, I ran hwconfig, but there was never an entry on the list that seemed to correspond to a CD-ROM device.

Any help is greatly appreciated. If I need to provide more information, just let me know.

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CD-DRIVE(1)							   User Commands						       CD-DRIVE(1)

NAME

       cd-drive - manual page for cd-drive version 0.83 i686-pc-linux-gnu

SYNOPSIS

       cd-drive OPTION...

       Shows CD-ROM drive characteristics.

DESCRIPTION

       -d, --debug=INT
	      Set debugging to LEVEL

       -i, --cdrom-device[=DEVICE]
	      show only info about CD-ROM device

       -q, --quiet
	      Don't produce warning output

       -V, --version
	      display version and copyright information and exit

   Help options:
       -?, --help
	      Show this help message

       --usage
	      Display brief usage message

AUTHOR

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COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2011 R. Bernstein
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.  Have driver: GNU/Linux ioctl and MMC driver Have driver: cdrdao (TOC) disk image driver Have driver: bin/cuesheet disk  image
       driver Have driver: Nero NRG disk image driver Default CD-ROM device: /dev/scd0

SEE ALSO

       cd-info(1) for information about the CD inside a CD-ROM.

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