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Access to the CD-ROM Drives

Configuration

/#  dmesg | grep "CDROM"
hdc:  LTN 362, ATAPI, CDROM drive

On my computer the Kernel output the above message. I have thus a LTN 362 ATAPI drive. This information is not further interesting however for the further work with muLinux. The Kernel detected and can the D-CRcOcM-cDrive thus access. This message for the integration of the D-CRcOcM-cDrive is important into other operation systems on this computer muLinux is suitable very well for hardware recognition. I could access under muLinux old D-CRcOcM-cDrives, for which, e.g. with DOS, a driver had to be loaded only from the Internet.

The first letters of the message are important, into my example: hdc. The device file for my CD-ROM drive is into this case /dev/hdc. For IDE drives apply the device files /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd , according to whether the drive is attached at the first or second IDE channel as masters or slave.

With SCSI applies similarly /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc etc. With SCSI has muLinux however his difficulties.

Now we still the support of the type of file ISO9660 should configure.

/# setup -f cdrom
...
Do you want CDROM ISO9660 support? (y/n) [n] y
Enter CDROM_DEVICE [/dev/hdc] [Enter]
loading module: isofs
/# _

Mount of the CD-ROM Drive

/# mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
/# _

With   ls /cdrom   we see their contents.

Unmount of the CD-ROM Drive

/# umount /cdrom 
/# _