[TriLUG] any clues?

[rpjday]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Beth Ellison wrote:

> Some guy wrote the documentation department here at Red Hat, said that he
> might as well ask Forrest Gump as look in our books for anything useful, and
> then sent me the following "description" of his problem. I have no idea what
> this says and I find the guy kind of entertaining. Any clue what the hell
> he's talking about? (and yes, I've already asked some people who work here 
> about
> it--I'm just curious what you guys might have to say).
> 
> Beth
> 
> 
> "with checking with the book. the ls -l /dev/cdrom comes up with /dev/cdrom
> -
> /dev/scd0. 

assuming that that really says "/dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0", it means that
his cdrom looks like a SCSI device.  nothing unusual there.

> the cat /proc/devices has ide0 and ide1.

ok, a couple of ide devices.  hard drive and cd-rom would make sense.

> dmeg | more has an hda
> and hdc pcrw804 atapi cd/dvd rom drive scsi subsys driver rev:1.00 and
> scsi0: scsi hostadapter emulation ide atapi devices. vendor phillips model
> pcrw804 rev: 2,1 and type: cd-rom ansi scsi rev: 02. 

so hard drive = hda, and hdc is an atapi cd/dvd drive (phillips), 
emulating a scsi drive, master device on the 2nd controller.  so far, 
nothing unusual.

> mount /dev/cdrom
> /mnt/cdrom I get unknown devise. the cat /proc/filesystems has iso9660
> listed and the cdrom installed is set to master. thank you let me know hot
> to fix if possible."

can you have him run 

# cdrecord -scanbus

just to see if cdrecord identifies as a CD drive?  curious.

rday