Re: CD-ROM mount problems

[shock <stephen@virtual-attorney.com>]

* David Gardi (debian@gardisoft.org) spake thusly:
> 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
> >
> Try linking /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0
> Here you go:
> rm -f /dev/cdrom ; ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom

same effect.  /dev/cdrom is not a block device
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