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Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.next.misc: 11-Sep-92 CDplayer 0.8 doesn't
work. Gerben Wierda@ltb.ltb.bs (665)

>It keeps asking for a disk, it won't recognize it and it tries to
>mount/initialize it.
>
>My CD-ROM drive is a NeXT, that has SCSI id 3. I ask for /dev/rsd3h and
>device 3 (whatever that means) through Tylers UI, or I run -d
/dev/rsd3h. >Now as i recall, h is the live partition of a SCSI device.
>
>Anyway, what is going wrong here and what should i do to make it work?

The problem is that you're trying to mount SCSI partition h of off a raw
device.  If the disk is a formatted device (with partition table, etc)
then you could mount the various partitions with "mount /mnt /dev/sd?a"
for a SCSI HD, "mount /mnt /dev/fd?a" for the floppy drive, or "mount -r
/mnt /dev/sr?a" for a CD-ROM.  (Actually, the name of the CD-ROM driver
may be different than sr? on the NeXT.  Doesn't really matter.)  The
question marks should be replaced with the appropriate number, which is
probably 0 for a floppy disk, and whatever the target number on the SCSI
chain is for a SCSI device.

If you want to deal with a raw partition, as in for a music CD, or a tar
dump made to floppy, or something like that, use the /dev/rsd?,
/dev/rfd?, or /dev/rsr? (respectively) devices without any partition
specified.

One other thing, partition h is not in general the "live" partition for
any machine that I know of.  On the Suns, partition c should represent
the entire device.  On the NeXT, most drives have the main partition as
partition a.

-Chuck

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