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Re: Mount //./cdrom0 problem
At 05:57 PM 7/24/2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 02:26:29PM -0700, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I've been backing up cd images by mounting them as block devices and using
> > dd to dump the image to a file (all on win2k). I just tryiied this on my
> > NT4 machine and found that : " mount -f -b //./cdrom0 /dev/cda "
> > doesn't seem to work on NT (but works fine on win2k). I get an error that
> > /dev/cda is not a recognized file or directory. Is the Block Device name
> > for the cdrom on NT different than the name on Win2k? (I tried //./cd-rom0
> > too, to no effect). Has anyone else had success with mounting the CD-rom
> > Bolck device on NT?
>
>You can access the cd-rom on both, NT4 and W2K, using the drive letter:
>
> mount -f -b //./F: /dev/cda
>
>Corinna
Quite true. The problem you're having Bruce is that you rely on symbolic
names defined in the O/S. cdrom0 exists in W2K but not in NT. If your
interested to see the differences in this area between W2K and NT, I
recommend WinObj which you can get at www.sysinternals.com.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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