mounting a CDROM on 8.1.84 dosn't

Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@math.uio.no)
Sun, 01 Feb 1998 15:34:26 +0100


2.1.84 + Regis Duchesne's module patch, gcc 2.8.0 -mpentium compiled.
Oldish Toshiba SCSI CDROM. The cd is mountable under 2.0.33. It's a
iso9660 with RR extentions.

First of all, going from 2.0.33 to 2.1.84 converted my box from a
heaving swaping monster to a lithe racing gaselle. It swaps much
less, and when it does swap it's ... well, not very noticeable. It
seems lighter on foot overall too. Brilliant work folks.

# grep cdrom /etc/fstab
/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,user,exec 0 0
# mount /cdrom
mount: wrong fs type or bad superblock on /dev/scd0
# dmesg
...
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 2.12
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
ncr53c810-0-<3,0>: FAST-5 SCSI 4.0 MB/s (250 ns, offset 8)
sr0: disc change detected.
VFS: Disk change detected on device 0b:00
Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
...
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
sr_mod 17280 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 9488 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod]
isofs 15160 0 (autoclean)
ppp 18848 1 (autoclean)
slhc 4564 1 (autoclean) [ppp]
serial 17896 2 (autoclean)

Looks like the right modules are loaded.

Configuration:

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PACKET=m
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=m
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW=m
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_IPV6=m
CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_CBQ=m
CONFIG_NET_SCH_PRIO=m
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_MAX_TAGS=16
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C8XX_SYNC=5
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_EQUALIZER=m
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_ISDN=m
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y
CONFIG_ISDN_MPP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_AUDIO=y
CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_HISAX=m
CONFIG_HISAX_16_0=y
CONFIG_HISAX_16_3=y
CONFIG_HISAX_EURO=y
CONFIG_CDROM=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NFSD=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
CONFIG_LOCKD=m
CONFIG_CODA_FS=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_NVRAM=m
CONFIG_PROFILE=y
CONFIG_PROFILE_SHIFT=2
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y