RESOLVED 3rd ide master: some headway

[James Takac]

On Friday 03 August 2007 22:50:26 Njoku, George O. wrote:
> Also add "rw" in /etc/fstab for the "sg0" entry.
> I saw in a forum that it works with dvd-ram
>
>
> Cheers
> George
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of James Takac
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:27 PM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: 3rd ide master: some headway
>
> On Friday 03 August 2007 01:02:18 Njoku, George O. wrote:
> > If it no trouble....a copy of fstab...or output of `mount`
> >
> >
> > George
> >
> >
> > Ps : sry ...wrong reply
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> > [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of James
>
> Takac
>
> > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:51 AM
> > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: 3rd ide master: some headway
> >
> > On Friday 03 August 2007 00:35:45 Njoku, George O. wrote:
> > > Try putting a dvd in
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > George
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of James
> >
> > Takac
> >
> > > Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 10:15 AM
> > > To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > Cc: ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com
> > > Subject: 3rd ide master: some headway
> > >
> > > Hi Guys
> > >
> > > I've made a little headway re my dvd ram drive on the third ide
> >
> > master.
> >
> > > When
> > > scanning the logs I found the device is indeed detected and mapped
> > > to /dev/sg0. However trying to mount this gives me an error saying
> >
> > it's
> >
> > > not a
> > > block device. udev in /var/logs was what gave me the clue
> > >
> > > If it helps, it shows up as follows in the udev log
> > >
> > > UDEV  [1186061983.009453] add      /class/scsi_generic/sg0
> > > (scsi_generic)
> > > UDEV_LOG=3
> > > ACTION=add
> > > DEVPATH=/class/scsi_generic/sg0
> > > SUBSYSTEM=scsi_generic
> > > SEQNUM=1828
>
> PHYSDEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/host0/target0:0:0/0:0:0:0
>
> > > PHYSDEVBUS=scsi
> > > PHYSDEVDRIVER=sd
> > > MAJOR=21
> > > MINOR=0
> > > UDEVD_EVENT=1
> > > DEVNAME=/dev/sg0
> > >
> > > Just not sure how to go about trying to mount it yet
> > >
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> > Hi George
> >
> > I get the errors with or without a disc in the drive. It just wont
>
> mount
>
> > regardless
> >
> > James
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> Hi George
>
> No worries, happens from time to time
>
> My current fstab is
>
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/sda3
> UUID=592ab5d4-7f72-4008-b18a-8d3e90db9318 /               ext3
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/sda5
> UUID=831fe505-c93a-47d1-ac07-08e024e0cf9f none            swap    sw
>
> 0       0
> /dev/sg0        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
>
> # Generated by Automatix
> /dev/sda1   /media/sda1   vfat    iocharset=utf8,umask=000  0    0
> /dev/sda2   /media/sda2   ntfs-3g  defaults,locale=en_US.utf8    0    0
> ## End of Automatix mounted partitions
>
>
>
> And of course the response to trying to mount is
>
>
> p3nn at p3nn:~$ mount /dev/sg0
> mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device
> p3nn at p3nn:~$
>
>
> As soon as updates finnish will check to see if udftools is installed.
> Servers
> seem a lil slow for now so could be a while
>
> James
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Hi Guys

Prob fixed with some help from Andre. He pointed me to

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Ubuntu_7.04/Issues/CD_media_not_recognized

which gave instructions to run as root the following commands

modprobe piix
update-initramfs -u

Mind you they forgot the -u

James