CD-ROM drive stopped working after upgrade

Leon Stringer leon.stringer at ntlworld.com
Sat May 8 12:39:39 UTC 2004


I already have this entry (kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.327 ro 
root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb nofb). I didn't put it there so I guess 
Anaconda did. But my CD drive is still not working.

Ted wrote:

>On Saturday 08 May 2004 12:59, Leon Stringer wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I've just upgraded from FC1 to FC2 test3 and my CD-ROM drive no longer
>>works: I can't play audio CDs or mount CD-ROMs. E.g. mount /mnt/cdrom
>>gives me "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" (as root or user).
>>
>>dmesg lists "hdc: SAMSUNG CDRW/DVD SM-332B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive" so
>>presumably /dev/cdrom is linking to the correct location.
>>
>>    
>>
>In my previous post I mentioned have to put ide-scsi in grub to get cd devices 
>running although popular opinion says it is not needed...
>  
>





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