Re: No CD's?

Nomad the Wanderer (nomad@rocky.orci.com)
Sun, 3 May 1998 20:47:49 -0600

/dev/cdrom on my system is a link to /dev/hda as I have no other IDE
devices. This devices worked find in the 2.1.85 kernel.

BTW, I'm currently on 2.1.99.

Thus spake Paul Wilkins (paulw@tmpw.com.au):

> /dev/cdrom should be a link, usually to /dev/hdc (master on secondary
> controller).
>
> Maybe this will help
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> On Sun, 3 May 1998, Nomad the Wanderer wrote:
>
> > Since 2.1.97 I can't mount CD's... I compiled IDE disk and CD into the
> > kernel, not as a module. I get this though:
> >
> > {0}:dogbert:/root>mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
> > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
> > (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> >
> > I have fat, msdos and vfat as modules. They are all 3 loaded durring the
> > above though.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Robert
> >
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> >
> > FYI:
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Robert L. Harris | Educate the Masses,
Senior System Administrator | Don't just help them to
at Great West Life. \_ Remain ignorant.

http://www.orci.com/~nomad

DISCLAIMER:
These are MY OPINIONS ALONE. I speak for no-one else.

FYI:
perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'

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