[TriLUG] any clues?

rpjday rpjday at mindspring.com
Mon Nov 26 15:49:28 EST 2001


On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Beth Ellison wrote:

> Some guy wrote the documentation department here at Red Hat, said that he
> might as well ask Forrest Gump as look in our books for anything useful, and
> then sent me the following "description" of his problem. I have no idea what
> this says and I find the guy kind of entertaining. Any clue what the hell
> he's talking about? (and yes, I've already asked some people who work here 
> about
> it--I'm just curious what you guys might have to say).
> 
> Beth
> 
> 
> "with checking with the book. the ls -l /dev/cdrom comes up with /dev/cdrom
> -
> /dev/scd0. the cat /proc/devices has ide0 and ide1. dmeg | more has an
> hda
> and hdc pcrw804 atapi cd/dvd rom drive scsi subsys driver rev:1.00 and
> scsi0: scsi hostadapter emulation ide atapi devices. vendor phillips model
> pcrw804 rev: 2,1 and type: cd-rom ansi scsi rev: 02. mount /dev/cdrom
> /mnt/cdrom I get unknown devise. the cat /proc/filesystems has iso9660
> listed and the cdrom installed is set to master. thank you let me know hot
> to fix if possible."

what version of red hat are we talking about here?

rday




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