Re: No cdrom device

[Bill Marcum <bill.marcum57@gmail.com>]

In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote:
>
> lshw output in my case has no *cdrom entry at all.  I rebooted, opened the 
> tray manually, inserted a Knoppix disk and set the BIOS to boot off the cdrom 
> drive.  No luck - booted from the hard drive.  
>
That sounds like a hardware problem with the cdrom drive.

> Also,    modprobe sr_mod    gave me sg0 in /dev (?).  mount /dev/sg0 
> /mnt/cdrom  gave  mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device
>
>  This is getting  wierder and wierder.
>
>


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