Re: unable to mount cdrom

From: P Gentry (rdgentry1_at_cablelynx.com)
Date: 02/11/04 

Date: 10 Feb 2004 16:25:48 -0800

"No Spam" <nospam@home.com> wrote in message news:<VCaWb.194$Rb.12@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk>...
> 'more /proc/ide/ide?/hd?/model' gives me
>
> Maxtor 91303D6
>
> I tried 'mount /dev/hd? /mnt/cdrom replacing ? with a to d with no result
>
> I edited the /etc/fstab file and placed this /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
>
> after rebooting and trying mount /mnt/cdrom or mount /cdrom it still said
> dev/cdrom not found in /etc/fstab???
[snip]

That Maxtor is your hard disk isn't it?

Anyway, if you had the cd working OK before the change, what errors or
config is shown in your burning program -- assuming you were using a
gui front end?

Is cdrecord installed? What do you get with "cdrecord --scanbus"?

/dev/cdrom is just a link to the "real" device file.

Suspect that what has happened is that your /dev/cdrom is still linked
to the _old_ /dev/scd0. This assumes that your cd was operating with
scsi emulation. In any case, examine the ls -l /dev/cdrom output to
see where it is linked to and adjust to new loacation (or re-establish
the correct link).

This is just a guess since we have little meaningful output and I
can't get a very clear picture of what/where you've made hand edits.

hth,
prg
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