[PLUG] cdrw won't mount or write, wrong /dev link, don't know how to change it

[Brian Quade]

Oops, I meant to say that I created a link from /dev/cdrw that points to 
/dev/hdc like it should, not /dev/hdd which has not device on it. 
 Anyway, I really just need to know why the Hardware Browser shows my 
cdrw as /dev/hdc but fstab shows it as /dev/cdrom1 which points to 
/dev/hdd.  Therein lies my problem and I can't edit fstab and I can't 
just create a new link either because it all gets reset again when I 
boot up.


Brian Quade wrote:

> I am running RH7.3 and I am pretty sure that my cdrw drive is set up 
> incorrectly.  I changed my grub.conf for scsi emulation which seems to 
> work fine because cdrecord "looks" like it is writing to the cd.  But 
> no data goes on to it.  I read somewhere that if you can mount your 
> cdrw, then it should be set up correctly to write to it (I did not try 
> to mount it before writing though).  But after testing that, I can not 
> mount it and I think that is the problem.  fstab lists it as hdd, but 
> my RedHat Hardware Browser lists it as hdc.  There is a link called 
> /dev/cdrom1 that points to /dev/hdd, but as far as I can see my system 
> does not have a /dev/hdd.  Anyway, I used ln to create a link called 
> /dev/cdrw to point to /mnt/cdrw and I created /mnt/cdrw and deleted 
> /mnt/cdrom1, which was there before.  I also edited fstab to reflect 
> those changes, which I discovered since then is not the way to do it. 
> Then I restarted the system, and it restored everything to the way it 
> was.  I used grep to try to find any files that contain 'hdd' or 
> 'cdrom1' but could not find any.  So I am at a loss as to how to let 
> the system know that my cdrw is on /dev/hdc (which the Hardware 
> Browser and some of my software packages already know), and change the 
> link that points to it to 'cdrw' rather than 'cdrom1'.  I read a 
> little bit about fsck and mkfs, but I am not really sure those are 
> what I need to use either and I don't want to screw up anything really 
> important in my file system.  Any advice?
>
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