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[russ loroville <bontemps AT m-net.arbornet.org>]

On Mon, 17 May 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Mon, 17 May 2004 Lamotkin AT softhome.net wrote:
>
> > 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org writes:
> >
> > > Lamotkin AT softhome.net wrote:
> > >>
> > >> It's all to gain access to my Fujitsu M25-MCC3064AP
> > >> MO drive (640 Mb, IDE).
> > >
> > > Is it not possible to mount that drive in the usual way?
> >
> > Till now I thought the usual way to mount an IDE device
> > (a [M]agneto-[O]ptical drive in my case, not an HDD)
> > is to edit '/etc/mtab' first (adding '/dev/hdd /MO msdos rw 0 0'),
> > create that '/MO', then run 'mount /dev/hdd'.
> > Is it right?
>
To be specific to the drives and what the BL kernel sees on boot-up, try
this:
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dmesg |grep -i hd
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or
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dmesg |grep -i ide
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or to see everything the kernel sees
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dmesg |more
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