DVD drive not recognized

[Saurabh Barve]

I tried doing;

$ mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom
$ mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom

I got an error:

/dev/hda is not a valid block device.

Saurabh.

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>Message: 1
>Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 13:17:32 -0600
>From: Stephen J Smoogen <smoogen at lanl.gov>
>Subject: Re: caching nameserver problems
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>nathan r. hruby wrote:
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>>On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Rogers, Weston wrote:
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>>>- FWIW, you shouldn't really ever have to bounce named9.  For named.conf
>>>- changes a simple "rndc reload" or "rndc reconfig" should suffice.
>>>
>>>Well, since these just cache I don't do any .conf changes, but what
>>>happens after awhile the nameservers just doesn't know about zones (that
>>>do infact exsist) and after restarting named, it picks right up.  
>>>
>>>      
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>>"rndc flush" is your buddy.
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>Ah thanks. I need to read that DNS&BIND book then as I have been trying 
>to figure out how to handle this for some computers.s
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Saurabh Barve                                        
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