cant mount drive

Jeff Vian jvian10 at charter.net
Tue Oct 12 12:14:17 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 20:38, Thornton wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
Please provide the output of lsmod, df, and the contents of your fstab.
 
> Thanks




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