Re: CD-Rom Probs

[Wayne Topa <wtopa@dmcom.net>]

	Subject: CD-Rom Probs
	Date: Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 02:11:21PM +0200

In reply to:William Leese

Quoting William Leese(william.leese@nl.danzas.com):
> Hello list,
> 
> I'm having some trouble getting my cdrom drive to work with linux.
> 
> Through dmesg I've learnt that it's /dev/hdc however when I try to mount it
> with
> 
Does dmesg show a CDROM device at /dev/hdc?
> mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
> 
Is /dev/cdrom symlinked to /dev/hdc?

> I receive error message:
> 
> /dev/hdc is not a valid block device.
> 
Do you have cdrom support compiled into the kernel?
If compiled as a module, did you insmod the driver?
Do you have iso9660 filesystem support?

> This is on a clean install of woody so I don't think it's a problem with the
> file. Idea's anyone?

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