cant mount drive
Thornton
thornton at cierragroup.com
Tue Oct 12 01:38:42 UTC 2004
> This identifies the CDROM as device 0,0,0 on the scsi devices.
>
> However, that is not used for mounting the cdrom filesystem but is used
> for burning cds.
>
> mounting a cdrom filesystem should be done by a command such as "mount
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom"
>
>
> Have you changed anything since installing Linux? What version are you
> running (FC1 or FC2)? This will affect how you access the cdrom.
>
> For example, when I install Linux the system defines the CDROM as
> /dev/cdrom (the physical device is /dev/hdd) and the only module loaded
> is ide-cd for it. If you changed the module loaded (added ide-scsi for
> example) it will change the device used for mounting and for
> accessing. It also disrupts automount and other functions.
>
> FC1 and FC2 are different in the way they handle CD burning. FC1 still
> used ide-scsi, but FC2 does not (the change from the 2.4 kernel to the
> 2.6 kernel was the cause).
I am using FC2. Other than the updates from up2date I have not changed
anything since the install.
Thanks
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