cant mount drive

[Thornton]

> This is alot similar to another post about  problems with cd writing.
> Is this an external CD drive? You see scsi_mod has taken over and
> 'sd_mod' instead of 'sr_mod' which is for a CD. What this means
> according to my humble opinion is that the kernel thinks you external
> usb CD drive is a SCSI storage device.
I have an internal IDE CDRW.

> So do a 
> 
> cat /proc/ide/hdc/* > hdc.info
> 
> and post the contents of 'hdc.info'.

cat /proc/ide/hdc/* > hdc.info
-bash: hdc.info: No such file or directory

so i went into proc/ide/hdc and these were the contents

capacity  driver  identify  media  model  settings

i'm not sure where hdc.info would be .

> This is similar to other posts having problems with external CD
> drives. The only thing that I can think of  right now is try to
> prevent 'scsi_mod' from taking over 'hdc' by adding to your
> '/etc/modprobe.conf''
> 
> options scsi_mod ignore=hdc
since i cant seem to cat that i'll try adding that now and just see if that works.
> and see what happens. But before you do that, post the results of the
> cat command for /proc/ide/hdc/ to see what your kernel thinks about
> 'hdc'.

thanks