Re: scsi cdrom

[<aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>(Alex Yukhimets)]

> I hope I'm not in the dark about this due to mental deficiancy. I can't
> seem to mount my cdrom. I have a buslogic bt946c controlling a 1gig
> drive and a chinon 1X cdrom. It recognizes the cdrom at boot buty I
> cannot mount it. I either get "special device not found error" or "not a
> valid block device" error. Is this a common newbie (yes, I am) error?

Could you please give the command you use to mount CD-ROM?
During boot you see messages from the kernel about recognized devices.
It should say that it sees the CD-ROM as a device (something like) /dev/sr0 

You would then mount it with 
mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt

Alex Y.

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