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I'm taking my first steps in the worls of Linux and I've already hit a snag.
Basically the RH5.0 install progresses to the point where it asks my
installation method.  I select local CDROM drive and choose ncr53c8xx (I have a
Diamond Fireport 40) and elect to autoprobe.  The installation script scans the
SCSI bus, *appears* to find the CDROM drive and starts to initialise it.
However, it then states that it can't mount the CDROM drive because it is not a
block device.  I previously managed fine with the same SCSI card and a Plextor
12/20 CDROM drive.  Can anyone shed some light on this?

My details are:
Asus TX97-E motherboard
Intel Pentium 200 MMX CPU oc'ed to 225 (75x3)
64 MB SDRAM

Diamond Fireport 40 UWSCSI card
IBM Ultrastar 2ES 4.33 GB UWSCSI
Plextor Ultraplex 32x CDROM drive USCSI (block jumper is currently set)

The SCSI bus is set up as follows:
HDD: Device 0
     Termination on
     Bus width 16 bit
     Sync data transfer 40 Mb/s
     Disconnect on
     Parity on
     Scan for LUNs off
     Timeout 10s

CDROM: Device 1
       Termination on
       Bus width 16bit
       Sync data transfer 20 Mb/s
       Disconnect on
       Parity on
       Scan for LUNs off
       Timeout 10s

Fireport: Device 7

I've also got the following expansion cards:
Diamond Stealth II S220
SBAWE 32 soundcard
Yamaha SW60XG MIDI card

Cheers.
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Vikram Prabhu

Mailed and posted

I've no idea *why* you have the problem, but the 'not a block device'
refers to the mount command arguments themselves, or more specifically,
the block device argument.  Whatever RH5.0 is trying to mount is
apparently the wrong file type.  Making a quick guess, I'd say it's due
to the symbolic link /dev/cdrom not being set to /dev/sr0 (it's your
first SCSI CDROM on the chain, right?).

Do an 'ls -l /dev/cdrom'; if it returns an error, then do an 'ln -s
/dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom'.  Otherwise you might need to delete whatever's
there first.

If it's correct, it'll most likely look something like
    lrwxrwxrwx  1 root   root    0  Mar  2 18:24 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sr0
(though the date, the spacing, the file ownership, and file permissions
may vary.)

In the case that it's correct, do an 'ls -l /dev/sr0'; I'd bet that
either /dev/cdrom isn't right, or /dev/sr0 doesn't exist.  I can't
remember off the top of my head the major for /dev/sr0; I don't know if
RedHat's MAKEDEV will make the SCSI CDROM devices or not.  (I'm under
the impression that it's major 11, minor 0 (that is, 'mknod /dev/sr0 b
11 0'), but I'm not certain.)

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Ed Grimm

Ignore my above message.  I've got the Plextor working on id 3.

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Vikram Prabhu