Mounting Cdrom drives

[RJ]

Ted Gervais wrote:
> I have two cdrom drives. The CD-Rw mounts just fine and works all ok.
> The other one (Cd-R)  doesn't mount.  When I try to mount it manually I
> get this error:
> 
> /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device.
> 
> And yet that drive worked fine when I used a cd to install/update FC2.
> 
> Do I have to change the mount command in /etc/fstab or is there a kernel
> problem where something needs to be changed in the config?
> 
> 

check if you boot the kernel with the option hdX=ide-scsi. (/etc/grub.conf)
This is not needed anymore in Kernel 2.6.X. Remove it and it should work again.

I had the same problem.

RJ