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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.



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