Problem mounting cdrom on CDROM-floppy hot swap Dell laptop

From: Yong Huang (yong321_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/30/03

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    Dell Latitude C640
    Redhat Linux 8.0 (kernel 2.4.18-14 #1)

    I use a floppy bootdisk to boot into Linux since a large portion of my
    disk is Windows XP taking more than 1024 cylinders. The problem is
    that this laptop uses the same slot for the floppy and CD drive. After
    I boot into Linux from the floppy and replace the floppy drive with a
    CD drive, I can't mount the CD. "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom
    /mnt/cdrom returns" says "/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device"
    (/dev/cdrom links to /dev/hdc; but mounting /dev/hd[bcd] makes no
    difference). /var/log/messages says "modprobe: Can't locate module
    block-major-22". "dmesg | grep -i cdrom" returns nothing.

    Then I added "alias block-major-22 off" to modules.conf. The message
    changes to "... block-major-33". Then I added these lines

    alias block-major-33 off
    options ide-cd ignore=hdb
    options ide-cd ignore=hdc

    Now no more modprobe message in /var/log/messages, but I still can't
    mount the CD. Thanks for any advice.

    Yong Huang

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