cant mount drive

[Harald Hoyer]

Thornton wrote:
>>What you posted to me (and below) is what he is asking for. It looks
>>below like you were in /proc/ide/hdc when you did the cat command and
>>that does not work to create regular files.  You should have been in the
>>regular filesystem and not in the /proc filesystem.
>>
>>You might try this.
>>1.  edit /etc/sysconfig/hwconf and delete the stanza related to the
>>cdrom
>>2.  edit /etc/fstab and delete the line for the cdrom.
>>3.  reboot and allow kudzu to recreate the entries for the cdrom in the
>>hwconf and fstab.
>>4.  Try the mount again.
>>
>>I do not know if the fact the udf module is loaded already may interfere
>>with mounting an iso9660 disk, but on mine the only time the udf module
>>is loaded is when I insert a CD-RW disk.  This may be an issue here for
>>you.
> 
> 
> I just tried that. kudzu found it, configured, same problem on boot up. 
> This is really starting to look gloomy.
> 
> Thanks
> 

try:
# rpm -e autorun magicdev --nodeps
reboot and retry...
you could install these rpms again, if the problem still persists..

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