failure mounting a PLEXTOR CD-R PX-320A

[Joao Palhoto Matos]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, José Nuno Coelho Sanarra Pires wrote:

> >
> > I have a PLEXTOR CD-R which seems to be correctly identified by the
> > hardware browser as a PLEXTOR CD-R PX-320A which used to perform well
> > but not frequently (I believe it worked with FC2T1).
> >
> > Currently mount attempts by root give
> >
> > [root at a213-22-64-242 root]# mount /dev/cdrom
> > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
> >
> > /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/hdc
> >
> > Line in /etc/fstab is
> > /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
> > noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 and was freshly included by kudzu.
> >
> > Failure happens both with
> > kernel-2.6.4-1.281
> > and
> > kernel-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1
> >
> > This is a i386 FC2T2 system (I am not particularly fond of testing
> > anaconda and burning CDs except for the occasional data backup so I got
> > here all the way from RH9 using up2date / apt / yum and, hardly using CDs,
> > not going through any kind of OS install and reading the list; I am
> > mentioning this because lots of people on this list seem to be unaware of
> > the possibility and become quite upset with failed CD boots for
> > installation...).

[...]

For the record: this was auto inflicted. Removing ide-scsi from grub.conf 
solved my problems. Bypassing anaconda also causes problems...

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João Palhoto Matos                     http://www.math.ist.utl.pt/~jmatos
Departamento de Matemática
Instituto Superior Técnico
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