Re: Valid Block

[Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>]

/dev/cdrom should actually be a symlink that points to an actual device.  
Depending on whether you have an IDE or SCSI CD drive, the actual device 
would either be /dev/hdX or /dev/scdX, where "X" is the actual device 
number...hdX would be an IDE drive, scdX would be a SCSI device.

At a command prompt, type "ls -l /dev/cdrom", and the output should look 
something like:

lrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root            8 Oct 29 00:00 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdd

In my case, my CDROM drive is the secondary slave in my IDE system, 
/dev/hdd.

This information, along with what type of CDROM you have (IDE/ATAPI or 
SCSI), and if it's IDE, which interface (primary or secondary) and device 
(master or slave), will be instrumental in getting your drive working, 
assuming /dev/cdrom is not properly linked, yet.

On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Smith wrote:

> Sorry, I'm very new to linux, could you please explain this issue a bit
> more?........thanks
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Burger" <mburger bubbanfriends org>
> To: <redhat-list redhat com>
> Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2002 11:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Valid Block
> 
> 
> > To what is /dev/cdrom linked?  "ls -l /dev/cdrom" and make sure that it's
> > linked to the correct /dev/hdX or /dev/scdX.
> >
> > On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Help.......I just got my Red Hat Linux Version 7.2 going.......and now
> when i try to access the Cd dirve..I get an error message,,,,,,,,,,,,,"mount
> /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device"..............any suggestions would
> be great

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