Re: cd drive config

[Christopher Nelson <chris@cavein.org>]

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 07:22:47PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote:
> I installed a new harddrive and moved the toshiba cd drive from hdb to hdc.
> 
> I obviously need to reconfigure something because I'm unable to play 
> music cds or mount data cds.
> 
> i changed /etc/fstab to this:
> 
> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> /dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> /dev/hda6       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2
> /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
       ^^^
> /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> #usbfs          /proc/bus/usb   usbfs   rw              0       0
> 
> (haven't set up the new harddrive yet).
> 
> I tried mount /dev/cdrom and got this error msg:
> 
> mount /dev/cdrom
> mount: can't find /dev/hdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
                         ^^^
> 
> Can someone point me to the config mechanism for this?

It looks like your /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdb, which is _not_ in your
/etc/fstab -- /dev/hdc is instead (as you said).  You should make sure
you want /dev/hdc then issue a 'ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom'.

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