RE: [Mondo-devel] Can't restore from CD "because it's a DVD"

[Hugo R. <hug...@mo...>]

Edit the source code. Comment out the compound statement that ignores a
device for being a DVD drive. Use grep and emacs judiciously. Then
recompile.

-Hugo


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mon...@li...
> [mailto:mon...@li...]On Behalf Of Chris
> Dennis
> Sent: 26 June 2003 01:38
> To: mon...@li...
> Subject: [Mondo-devel] Can't restore from CD "because it's a DVD"
>
>
> Hello Mondo people
>
> I backed up my old computer using mondo-archive (about version 1.5 I
> think), and now I want to restore some of the files to my new
> computer
> which is happily running Debian with mondo version 1.61.
>
> Working from the instructions at
> http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/docs/1.6x-howto/restoretips.html
> (section 9.2.5), I typed "mondorestore" as root, chose CDRW as the
> medium, and it said:
>
> ---FATALERROR--- Cannot find config info on tape/CD/floppy
>
> Looking at the log (attached), the problem seems to be
> related to these
> messages:
>
> --> 'hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> '
> Ignoring 'hdc: HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4120B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ' because it's a DVD drive
> ...
> --> 'hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
> '
> Ignoring 'hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache
> ' because it's a DVD drive
> :
>
> The drive is, of course, a CD-RW as well as a DVD, and is
> what I used to
> create the backups in the first place.
>
> The problem could be related to the fact that, under Debian with
> cdrecord version 4:2.0+a15-1, I have to refer to the drive as
> dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 whereas on my old system (SuSE 7.3, with an older
> version of cdrecord) I just used dev=0,0,0.
>
> cheers
>
> Chris
>