Re: Cd-rom Help......please

[Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>]

I wound up getting Geoff set up.

For whatever the reason, the system kept coming back and telling him that 
/dev/hdc was not a valid block device.

When all was said and done, we loaded up the ide-scsi stuff, and are 
mounting /dev/scd0, instead of /dev/hdc.

On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Edward Dekkers wrote:

> > To anyone whos can help......I am Unable To Mount My Cd-rom drive......I
> > would really like to have an e-mail sent to me, that goes step-by-step and
> > shows mw what to do. I Am new to linux.  I have tried many different
> > methods, when i type "ls -l /dev/cdrom" in the command promt nothing
> > happenes.......same with "ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom".  My cd-rom is
> > /dev/hdc.  And thats what it's set at in the cd properties....followed by
> > /dev/cdrom.
> 
> 'ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom' will show no output if it is successful. Are you
> sure running 'ls -l /dev/cdrom' still shows nothing AFTER doing the ln
> command?
> 
> My output from 'ls -l /dev/cdrom' looks like this:
> 
> lrwxrwxrwx   1   root   root   8 Apr 12   2001 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
> 
> Regards,
> 
> ---
> Edward Dekkers (Director)
> Triple D Computer Services P/L
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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