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  1. MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH!!

     

    I had just discovered that same link (http://www.geocities.com/lawrencioy/) and was coming back to say that it had finally discovered the drive on the system... now i just need to figure out how to mount it because i must be doing something wrong. either the raw1394 did the trick or using insmod instead of modprobe. (I don't yet understand the difference, but progress is progress whether I understand it yet or not :)) I now have /dev/scd0.

    [root@localhost bill]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
    
    Attached devices:
    
    Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
    
     Vendor: TOSHIBA  Model: CD-R/RW SR-C8102 Rev: 1S11
    
     Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02

     

    I tried to mount it but this is what I get:

    [root@localhost bill]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
    
    mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
    
    mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
    
          or too many mounted file systems

  2. ok. I am noticing that sd_mod is never loaded after I reboot. Do I need to do anything in particular to get it to keep loading?

    I would try it again making sure hotplug starts at boot time (using the MCC)
    I assume that's the Mandrake Control Center... but where would I see whether hotplug is starting? I don't see anything in the detected hardware about firewire, but I just may not be recognizing it. there are 3 USB controllers, 3 USB UHCI Root hubs, and an SMBus controller.

     

    Here's what looked relevant from my /var/log/messages:

    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[11]  MMIO=[e0200000-e02007ff]  Max Packet=[2048]
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: ieee1394: SelfID completion called outside of bus reset!
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: Error logging into SBP-2 device - login failed
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: ieee1394: sbp2: sbp2_login_device failed
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: scsi0 : IEEE-1394 SBP-2 protocol driver (host: ohci1394)
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: $Rev: 707 $ James Goodwin <jamesg@filanet.com>
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: SBP-2 module load options:
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Max speed supported: S400
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Max sectors per I/O supported: 255
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Max outstanding commands supported: 8
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Max outstanding commands per lun supported: 1
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Serialized I/O (debug): no
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: - Exclusive login: yes
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 02:05.0
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost kernel: PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:1d.1
    
    Apr  3 06:39:41 localhost rc: Starting partmon:  succeeded

    I'm going to keep working on this a bit tonight but may be away all weekend... I don't want you thinking I'm just running away. THANK YOU for all the help! :D I've been trying to RTFM but most of these commands just don't mean much until you've actually needed then and get to see what they do. between this and the other little things that've helped me from your other posts (just got animated lilo screens from your tips and tricks post, we'll see if i can get them working)... you've helped out tremendously!

  3. ok. i REALLY appreciate your help on this. I DO have a /dev/scsi/ directory, but there's nothing in it. nothing else new popped up. nothing was detected with ./rescan-scsi-bus.sh or when i did it manually as your text suggested (echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi)

     

    what I noticed was that the modules are loading out of order in lsmod:

    [root@localhost Documents]# lsmod
    
    Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
    
    ide-floppy             15580   0  (autoclean)
    
    sd_mod                 13100   0  (autoclean) (unused)
    
    sr_mod                 16920   0  (autoclean) (unused)
    
    ide-cd                 33856   0  (autoclean)
    
    cdrom                  31648   0  (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
    
    binfmt_misc             7020   1
    
    parport_pc             25096   1  (autoclean)
    
    lp                      8096   0  (autoclean)
    
    parport                34176   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
    
    agpgart                40896   7  (autoclean)
    
    i810_audio             26248   0
    
    soundcore               6276   0  [i810_audio]
    
    ac97_codec             12488   0  [i810_audio]
    
    nfsd                   74256   8  (autoclean)
    
    orinoco_cs              5652   1
    
    orinoco                36972   0  [orinoco_cs]
    
    hermes                  7524   0  [orinoco_cs orinoco]
    
    ds                      8456   2  [orinoco_cs]
    
    yenta_socket           13056   2
    
    pcmcia_core            57184   0  [orinoco_cs ds yenta_socket]
    
    af_packet              14952   3  (autoclean)
    
    floppy                 55132   0
    
    3c59x                  29584   1  (autoclean)
    
    scsimon                 9280   0  (unused)
    
    sbp2                   19424   0
    
    ohci1394               19048   0  (unused)
    
    ieee1394               45900   0  [sbp2 ohci1394]
    
    nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
    
    ntfs                   76812   1  (autoclean)
    
    usb-storage            72952   0  (unused)
    
    scsi_mod              103284   4  [sd_mod sr_mod scsimon sbp2 usb-storage]
    
    usb-uhci               24652   0  (unused)
    
    usbcore                72992   1  [usb-storage usb-uhci]
    
    rtc                     8060   0  (autoclean)
    
    ext3                   59916   2
    
    jbd                    38972   2  [ext3]

     

    I tried to remove them and then put them back (i used "modprobe -r" for them in reverse order and had to get rid of a few dependencies too) and then put them back in order. but they showed up out of order immediately-- scsi_mod sort of jumps ahead of everything else. so i'm having trouble figuring out how to get them in order? or does the order really matter as long as they're all loaded??

  4. Here's a page that doesn't mean much to me, but if you can translate it into easily telling me what to do, that'd be great :) (note: this is about a different external drive, but it is probably similar to my drive?)

     

    i think i've done everything but the part at the end about inserting (because I'm not sure where to insert it?).

     

    from http://www.cs.unm.edu/~maccabe/Dell_x200.html#firewire:

    The trick to making things work is to attach the drive before inserting (modprobe) the appropriate modules. Once the disk has been connected, you should insert the following modules: 
    
    ieee1394 (you can probably insert this before connecting the disk) 
    
    ohci1394 
    
    sbp2 
    
    
    
    If you compiled them as modules, you will also need to insert: 
    
    scsi_mod 
    
    sd_mod 
    
    
    
    Once everything is in place, the device will be /dev/scd0, i.e., "ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom"

  5. I don't know if it's ide or scsi or something else. It's "external" because it's separate from the notebook, but connects when you "dock" the computer into the "media base" (cradle, docking station, whatever you want to call it.) It looks like this: 200_pd.jpg so the cdrom is on that bottom part that detatches. I THINK that the interface between the laptop and the base is firewire. (not a normal firewire port, but it seems to be firewire nonetheless.)

     

    The installer's NTFS resizer didn't work very well for me, it was only able to shrink the NTFS partition by about 300MB... not enough. I ended up downloading a program called "BootIt NG", which did the trick nicely. I think the problem was that windows had scattered info around the drive, and the mandrake installer couldn't move it around without destroying the data? XP was making me frustrated BEFORE I started trying to install linux... but it made me MORE frustrated on the way out the door. :lol:

     

    I just rebooted, thinking maybe part of the problem could be that the system had suspended earlier, but after the reboot when I tried "mount /mnt/cdrom" it says "mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist" (not sure if that sheds light on anything or not).

     

    Thanks. :)

  6. First of all, I don't see why you pretend it to be a miracle to install Mandrake 9.1 on your laptop.  5 words: Why it would not work?

    The miracle wasn't that mandrake worked... it was that *I* was able to avoid messing everything up. I thought the learning curve would be a lot steeper than it has been--I've only been running linux for several weeks and so far i've been able to resolve most issues with a google search. This problem was only alluded to on a few pages (something like "and the CD-RW doesn't work yet, but that's ok because i hardly use it anyway")

     

    KDE put an icon on the desktop (like you said), and it thinks that it has a drive mounted at /mnt/cdrom but the link doesn't work. Harddrake never sees the drive and there's no link in the control center to set a mount point for cd drives (like there would be if it saw a drive). The reason i need the firewire running is that the drive is in the media base/docking station, which docks by (i guess) firewire. So i couldn't install until i got firewire working.

     

    I don't see anything in my /etc/lilo.conf about the cd drive at all :(

    boot=/dev/hda
    
    map=/boot/map
    
    default="linux"
    
    keytable=/boot/us.klt
    
    prompt
    
    nowarn
    
    timeout=100
    
    message=/boot/message
    
    menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
    
    image=/boot/vmlinuz
    
    label="linux"
    
    root=/dev/hda5
    
    initrd=/boot/initrd.img
    
    append="devfs=mount acpi=off quiet"
    
    vga=788
    
    read-only
    
    image=/boot/vmlinuz
    
    label="linux-nonfb"
    
    root=/dev/hda5
    
    initrd=/boot/initrd.img
    
    append="devfs=mount acpi=off"
    
    read-only
    
    image=/boot/vmlinuz
    
    label="failsafe"
    
    root=/dev/hda5
    
    initrd=/boot/initrd.img
    
    append="devfs=nomount acpi=off failsafe"
    
    read-only
    
    other=/dev/hda1
    
    label="windows"
    
    table=/dev/hda
    
    other=/dev/fd0
    
    label="floppy"
    
    unsafe

    What does that mean, since it's not there at all, but kde at least thinks it sees something? Thanks for the help!

     

    Edit: forgot to add that when i try "mount /mnt/cdrom" i get nothing (just another prompt). when i try to go to navigate to it ("cd /mnt/cdrom"), i get "bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error". i get the same responses after "supermount -i disable". thanks.

  7. Edit 12/30/03: 9.2 download edition automatically sees the drive after installation and it works perfectly! :thumbs:

     

    i am only several weeks into my newbie-dom, but so far things have gone VERY smoothly--but any help anyone is able to give would be greatly appreciated.

     

    I have a Gateway 200 laptop (the same computer as a dell latitude x200 and maybe others) and by some miracle i have mandrake 9.1 running and everything works except for the CD-RW in the media base. the drive worked fine during install (i had to load the 3 drivers for it during the install) but now that mandrake is installed i can't get anything to see the drive. it looks like the drivers (modules?) are loaded (ieee1394, ohci1394, sbp2)... does anyone have any idea what else i need to do?

     

    Thanks for any help and I apologize if I've gotten any terminology wrong.

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