Re: How to mount PCMCIA ATAPI CDROM?

On Feb 11, 3:45 am, Lasse Jensen <faf...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
zalek wrote:
On Feb 10, 7:00 pm, Lasse Jensen <faf...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
zalek wrote:
On my VAIO PCG-SR7K I installed Fedora Core 5. I can connect this
laptop to a DVD-ROM drive using PCMCIA card. My question - how to
mount this drive?
I am looking in the /dev directory - there is no any CDROM or ATAPI
devices.
When I put in and out PCMCIA card, in see on dmesg:
pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0

Any ideas?

You should get some more info when you insert the card. Are you sure you
have the driver in your kernel? If so, you might have to edit it and
recompile to make it see your card. Most PCMCIA - IDE cards are quite
simple PIO devices and all supported by the same driver.

--
Lasse Jensen [fafler at g mail dot com]
Linux, the choice of a GNU generation.

I think the DVDROM drive is not in the kernel.
I checked the directory /dev - I didn't see any block device that
looks like DVD or CD. There is /dev/sda but I think it is Sony
memory stick device. I try to mount it, but got message - no media in
the device.

If it's a 16 bit PCMCIA card with IDE/ATAPI interface, the drive should show
up as /dev/hd[x], probably /dev/hdc since most older laptops only have one
internal IDE bus.

I checked dmesg - there is no any message about CD or DVD, only a
this:

"pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0".

Any idea how to find a driver for my DVDRom?

Well the driver is called ide_cs. Modprobe it and see if it helps, but
cardutils should do that automaticly if it knows about your card.

You might find the PCMCIA howto usefull.http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/doc/PCMCIA-HOWTO.html

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Lasse Jensen [fafler at g mail dot com]
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In /dev I have only /hda, /hda1 and /hda2 - both are HD.
modprobe ide_cs is executed successfully, but still no DVD drive.
I installed FC on my laptop by removing HD from the laptop, connecting
it to a desktop and then installed FC. The reason was that my laptop
did not recognized DVDROM.
While HD was connected to desktop in /dev I saw few block devices
like /cdrw, /dvdr etc. After I put HD back to the laptop - all those
devices disappeared.

I copied the FC installation DVD to HD (as files).
My new question - how to convert this directory to ISO immage, so I
could reinstall FC from my HD?

Thanks,

Zalek

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