cant mount drive

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Wed Oct 13 01:54:47 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-10-12 at 20:27, Thornton wrote:
> > This seems to have a problem.  If cat does not work then it seems
> > indicative of something deeper than previously thought.
> > 
> > Can you do a cat on /etc/modprobe.comf ?
> > Were you SUed to root when you did the cat on /proc/ide/hdc/* ?
> > What directory were you in when you did that?
> 
> yes I was SUed as root when I tried to do the cat earlier however what
> he sent me wasnt just cat /proc/ide/hdc/* as it had hdc.info after it.
> not sure if that was supposed to write to hdc.info file or not
> 
> cat /proc/ide/hdc/*

The command he asked you to use was
   cat /proc/ide/hdc/* > hdc.info

That would have created the file hdc.info but if you missed the '>' in
the line it would try to cat a file that did not exist.

> 563096
> ide-cdrom version 4.61
> 85c0 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
> 2020 2020 2020 2020 0000 0000 0000 312e
> 3033 2020 2020 414f 5045 4e20 2020 4344
> 2d52 5720 4352 5735 3233 3220 2020 2020
> 312e 3033 2032 3030 3331 3031 3320 0000
> 0000 0f00 0000 0200 0200 0006 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0007 0007
> 0003 0078 0078 00f0 0078 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0020 0013 4218 4000 4000 4218 0000 4000
> 0407 0000 0000 0000 0000 600f 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
> cdrom
> AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013
> name                    value           min             max            
> mode
> ----                    -----           ---             ---            
> ----
> current_speed           66              0               70             
> rw
> dsc_overlap             0               0               1              
> rw
> ide-scsi                0               0               1              
> rw
> init_speed              12              0               70             
> rw
> io_32bit                1               0               3              
> rw
> keepsettings            0               0               1              
> rw
> nice1                   1               0               1              
> rw
> number                  2               0               3              
> rw
> pio_mode                write-only      0               255            
> w
> unmaskirq               1               0               1              
> rw
> using_dma               1               0               1              
> rw
> 
> Thanks




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