Eugene Nine wrote:

> I have an external USB cd recorder (a regular IDE drive stuck in a USB
> case). With slack 9 I could plug it in and just
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and read it that way. Either /mnt/cdrom
> or /mnt/hdc would work. In slack 10.1 I can't mount the drive, but
> cdrecord sees it and I can write to it just fine. I'm confused as to what
> changed here, I can try to specify any file system type and nothing works.

How are you trying to mount the drive? The device location should
be /dev/sda because the USB drive will be registered as a SCSI device. You
can do a dmesg | grep <cd model> to see where the kernel created the block
device in /dev and mount as usual.

Hope that helps,

Gecko