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- From: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: CDplayer 0.8 doesn't work.
- Message-ID: <0egfTf200WDJI0zWVO@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 12 Sep 92 19:39:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.0egfTf200WDJI0zWVO
- References: <2056@ltb.ltb.bso.nl>
- Organization: Senior, Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
- Lines: 39
- In-Reply-To: <2056@ltb.ltb.bso.nl>
-
- Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 11-Sep-92 CDplayer 0.8 doesn't
- work. Gerben Wierda@ltb.ltb.bs (665)
-
- >It keeps asking for a disk, it won't recognize it and it tries to
- >mount/initialize it.
- >
- >My CD-ROM drive is a NeXT, that has SCSI id 3. I ask for /dev/rsd3h and
- >device 3 (whatever that means) through Tylers UI, or I run -d
- /dev/rsd3h. >Now as i recall, h is the live partition of a SCSI device.
- >
- >Anyway, what is going wrong here and what should i do to make it work?
-
- The problem is that you're trying to mount SCSI partition h of off a raw
- device. If the disk is a formatted device (with partition table, etc)
- then you could mount the various partitions with "mount /mnt /dev/sd?a"
- for a SCSI HD, "mount /mnt /dev/fd?a" for the floppy drive, or "mount -r
- /mnt /dev/sr?a" for a CD-ROM. (Actually, the name of the CD-ROM driver
- may be different than sr? on the NeXT. Doesn't really matter.) The
- question marks should be replaced with the appropriate number, which is
- probably 0 for a floppy disk, and whatever the target number on the SCSI
- chain is for a SCSI device.
-
- If you want to deal with a raw partition, as in for a music CD, or a tar
- dump made to floppy, or something like that, use the /dev/rsd?,
- /dev/rfd?, or /dev/rsr? (respectively) devices without any partition
- specified.
-
- One other thing, partition h is not in general the "live" partition for
- any machine that I know of. On the Suns, partition c should represent
- the entire device. On the NeXT, most drives have the main partition as
- partition a.
-
- -Chuck
-
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