Re: CD-ROM mount problems
* Jeffrey W. Baker (jwbaker@acm.org) spake thusly:
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> On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, shock wrote:
>
> > I've recently trashed a RH6.2 machine in favor of Debian Woody.
> > This is an all SCSI machine, with a Plextor CD-RW. When I mount any CD,
> > I get the following:
> >
> > # mount /cdrom
> > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device
> >
>
> Two ideas:
>
> /dev/sr0 doesn't exist, or has numbers other than 11,0
# ls -al /dev/sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 13 19:32 /dev/sr0 -> scd0
how do i know what its numbers are? do i need to delete it and recreate
it?
> SCSI CD-ROM support is a module but isn't loaded. Try modprobe sr_mod (I
> think).
SCSI CD-ROM support is compiled into the kernel.
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