No CDROM

[Hans Müller]

Am Montag 12 Januar 2004 05:06 schrieb Paul:
> OK, I'm some what new to Linux but seem to have a problem on my second
> system with Fedora.  It was a clean install, but sharing disk space with
> the dark side.
>
> Motherboard: Abit IC7-MAX3
> Kernel-smp#2.6.1-1.126  (but the core 1 2.4 didn't work either)
>
> My fstab has:
>
> LABEL=/       /               ext3   defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot   /boot           ext3   defaults        1 2
> none          /dev/pts        devpts gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none          /proc           proc   defaults        0 0
> none          /dev/shm        tmpfs  defaults        0 0
> LABEL=/usr    /usr            ext3   defaults        1 2
> /dev/hda3     swap            swap   defaults        0 0
> /dev/hdb      /web	      vfat   defaults	0 0
> /dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy     auto   noauto,owner,kudzu 0
> /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom      udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>
> When I run Hardware Browser (hwbrowser) it reports:
>
>  CD-ROM Drives Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A
>  Manufacturer: PLEXTOR
>  Driver: none or built-in
>  Device: /dev/hdc
>
> However when I manually try to mount ...
>
> [root at localhost root]# mount cdrom
> mount: can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
is wrong!!
>
> [root at localhost root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
>
> [root at localhost root]# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
> mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device
>
> Any suggestions where to look and what to try?  Oh and yes, the
> /mnt/cdrom  directory exists.
>
> Damn annoying since the system booted and loaded from the CD in the
> first place.
do you have a CD in the drive?? Have you enabled the ide-scsi emulator???

>
> Paul