Re: CD-Rom Probs

[Sebastiaan <S.Breedveld@ITS.TUDelft.NL>]

Hello,

On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, William Leese wrote:

> 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
> 
> mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
> 
> I receive error message:
> 
> /dev/hdc is not a valid block device.
> 
What happens when you do 'less -f /dev/hdc'? You should see a lot of junk
on the screen, displaying the data on the cd (there is a cd in the drive,
right? And it is not an audio cd and you have tried various cdroms?).

Greetz,
Sebastiaan