[CALUG] trouble mounting usb cdrw

[Jim Sansing]

The 'not a valid block device' seems to be a catchall message.
I can't give you 'the' answer to your problem, in fact I'm only
going to ask questions that will hopefully help you figure it out.

- I found a HOWTO for kernel 2.4.0, but it might help:
  http://tuxmobil.org/linux_usb_cd.html

- Have you successfully mounted the drive in read-only mode?
  - If so, what does the mount listing say for that?

- If this is the first time you have mounted the drive, are the
USB drivers running (lsmod if they are modules, otherwise
poke around /proc--/proc/bus/usb on my 2.6 system)?

- Have you posted your question to Slackware support?

- I hate to say it, but the USB drivers for 2.6 were iffy up to
about 2.6.18, I don't know if the 2.4 drivers are very good at
all, and if they even support writeable CDs

Later . . .   Jim


Russ wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm trying to mount a usb cdrw.  I get the error "mount: scd0 is not a
>valid block device".  The command I issued was 
>"mount -t iso9660 -o rw /dev/scd0 /mnt/usb_cdrw".  I've tried other
>device names as well. I've looked in /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog 
>/var/log/debug and I dont see anything that I recognize indicating what
>the problem might be. I dont have a lot of experience with Linux so I may
>have missed something in those files.  Can someone point me in the right
>direction or tell me what should I be looking for?
>
>Using
>Slackware 10.1 kernel 2.4.29
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Russ Main
>
>
>
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