Re: Can't mount cdrom

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Jared L. Black wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 10:56, Rick Stevens wrote:
>
> > Jared L. Black wrote:
> >
> > > I have RH8.0, which has X-CD-ROAST (ver0.98alpha9) as a CD burner.  I
> > > used it one time to create a data CD and it worked OK except somehow it
> > > took the /dev/cdrom line out of the fstab file.  Now I can't get any CD
> > > to load in the drive.  
> > >
> > > If I do a mount /mnt/cdrom command (as root) I get the error: 
> > >
> > > mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist
> > >
> > > Also, when I boot up, I get the line
> > >
> > > updating /etc/fstab cannot stat /dev/cdrom: no such file or directory
> > > [failed]
> > >
> > >
> > > I edited the fstab file and put the correct cdrom line back, but that
> > > didn't help.
> > >
> > > The line is (some spaces deleted to fit on one line in this message)
> > >
> > > /dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom  iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> > >
> > > Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Make sure the directory /mnt/cdrom exists:
> >
> > 	# ls -l /mnt
> >
> > If it doesn't exist, create it (as root):
> >
> > 	# mkdir -p -m 755 /mnt/cdrom
> >
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> I did the ls -l /mnt and the cdrom wasn't there.  I did the command 
>
> mkdir -p -m 755 /mnt/cdrom
>
> as root.  Then I rebooted and again got the message  
> updating /etc/fstab cannot stat /dev/cdrom: no such file or directory
> [failed]  
>
> And it won't see the CD and doing a "mount /mnt/cdrom" gives an error 
>
> mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
>
> Any other suggestions?  Maybe the drive is roasted.

D'OH!

First, dump out the /var/log/dmesg file and see if your drive appears
in that file.  If so, it'll look something like:

	hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
	hdc: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)

If you see that, note the first three letters (here, "hdc").  Then, as
root:

	# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

(replace "hdc" with what appears in your listing).

If you don't see anything with your CD-ROM in it, then I'd reboot and
watch your BIOS messages carefully to see if the BIOS sees the drive.
If it doesn't then the drive is either fried or unplugged (either the
data cable or the power cable).  You'll have to open your box to see
which.
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