Now Can't Mount the CDROM
Hi,
Thanks everyone for your help so far. I was able to get the cdrom module
installed by using modconf. Now, however, I can't get the cdrom to mount,
and the archives and howtos are of no help. Using the normal mount command,
I get "special device does not exist" or "sonycd is not a block device",
basically no matter what. The same thing happens when trying to install
applications from dselect: nothing I type in is recognized as a block device.
This is on a 486 with a Sony CDU33A cdrom. Using lsmod the device driver
for the cdrom does show up.
Any tips/strategies? Thank you!
Best Wishes,
Manu
In a message dated 5/3/00 2:48:48 AM EST, bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca writes:
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I mean, which Compact Disc vendor (CheapBytes, O'Rielly, etc.).
It's O'Reilly.
> I was able to successfully install and configure the base system by
using
> floppies (I needed the drivers disk and the 8 base 14 floppies). However,
no
> module worked for my CD-ROM drive. The closest one was the Sony CDU31A,
but
> it didn't work (I got a "device in use" and two syntax error messages).
Does
> anyone have any suggestions for how to get the system to recognize the
CD-ROM
> drive now?
That is the correct driver, it works for both cdu31a and cdu33a using
/dev/sonycd. As root: "lsmod" will tell you if the sonycd.o module is
already installed, if "grep sonycd /boot/System.map*" gets lot of hits
then the driver is compiled into the kernel.
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