What is /dev/dvd a symlink to on your system?
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> From: Derick Centeno <aguilarojo@verizon.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.yellowdog.general
> Date: 10 Sep 2004 11:07:26 -0400
> Subject: fstab stat to /dev/dvd failure
>
> Greetings Gang:
> Some of you may recall sometime ago I reported, complained, etc.
> regarding getting ide-scsi running within the 2.4.20-8d kernel; I solved
> that problem and am preparing an FAQ for the YDL FAQ website regarding
> the process. Also I've discovered a range of interesting problems
> regarding kernel upgrades as a side-effect of my efforts, again that is
> another story.
>
> For now let it be sufficient that I'm running linux-2.4.20-8d and
> ide-scsi is running as it should. I discussed elsewhere that the cdrw
> device which replaced the standard cdrom which Apple provided with my
> Beige 233Mhz minitower (ssshhh...no giggles please) is listed in various
> ways as the kernel boots up:
>
> 86 hda: LITE-ON LTR-52327S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> .
> .
> .
> 120 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 99x/52x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>
> cdrecord and dvdrecord report the same thing with the scanbus option:
>
> [root@arakus root]# cdrecord -scanbus
> Cdrecord 2.0 (powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg
> Schilling
> Linux sg driver version: 3.1.24
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
> scsibus0:
> 0,0,0 0) 'LITE-ON ' 'LTR-52327S ' 'QS57' Removable
> CD-ROM
> 0,1,0 1) *
> 0,2,0 2) *
> 0,3,0 3) *
> 0,4,0 4) *
> 0,5,0 5) *
> 0,6,0 6) *
> 0,7,0 7) *
> scsibus2:
> 2,0,0 200) 'QUANTUM ' 'FIREBALL SE4.3A ' ' ' Disk
> 2,1,0 201) *
> 2,2,0 202) *
> 2,3,0 203) *
> 2,4,0 204) *
> 2,5,0 205) *
> 2,6,0 206) *
> 2,7,0 207) *
>
> but despite the above when the kernel boots up the message as follows
> appears which is NOT recorded in any boot logs:
>
> Updating /etc/fstab cannot stat /dev/dvd [FAILURE]
>
> Any clues???
>
>
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