Re: Can't mount cdrom anymore

[Carl Fink <carlf@fink.to>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 10:25:00PM -0400, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> 
> >> ~$ mount /cdrom
> >> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
> >
> >What's the output of "ls -l /dev/cdrom"?
> 
> ~$ ll /dev/cdrom*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Apr 16 12:45 /dev/cdrom -> 
> /dev/cdrom0
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Apr 16 12:45 /dev/cdrom0 -> 
> /dev/scd0
> 
> ~$ ll /dev/scd0
> brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   0 Mar 14  2002 /dev/scd0
> 
> And the line from my /etc/fstab
> 
> /dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0

Does your new kernel include ide-scsi?  If not, try "modprobe
ide-scsi".
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Carl Fink               carlf@dm.net
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