by Hello, I am having great difficulty with slackware and my mitsumi cdrom.
I run a 386DX/16 with Slackware Linux 1.1.54. 5 megs of ram, and a mitsumi
cdrom of course.
My system runs fine, but slow, except that I cannot get my cdrom drive to mount.
I had previously purchased the yggdrasil fall '94 release of linux and installed
it by some miracle and it worked. Only problem was, I hated being tied to the
cdrom. Besides, I thought the slackware package was better. So I went ahead and
installed the slackware distrubution which I had ftp'ed from tsx-11.mit.edu.
Yggdrasil worked just fine with my cdrom, slackware doesn't.
I have concluded that it is not the irq setting because I have tried putting in
another similar mitsumi drive that had a jumper for irq10 on it's proprietary
interface card. (my other one didn't have one for 10, I had it on irq5)
Whenever I try to mount it I get this error, no matter what params I give mount.
mount: wrong fs type, /dev/cdrom already mounted, /cdrom busy, or other error
I am pretty sure it's 'other error'.
when it trys to mount it on startup in the /etc/fstab with this line:
/dev/mcd /cdrom iso9660 ro
I get this:
ll_rw_block: Trying to read nonexistant block device 1700 (32)
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 0x1700 iso_blknum 16
mount: wrong fs type, /dev/cdrom already mounted, /cdrom busy, or other error
I am forced to conclude that recompiling the kernel to look for irq5 on the
mitsumi would be pointless because even when I put in a cdrom that is set
for what the kernel is looking for. It doesn't work..
Can anyone help? This is very confusing and frustrating. :)