Re: CD-RW blues help

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On Thursday May 29, 2003 Brian Pershall wrote:
> ok this is strange I installed 9 on my laptop from my cd-rw but now it
> will not mount it there is an error of
> Could not mount device
> The Reported error was:
> mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
>
>  Why would I be getting this error and how can I fix it or how can I go
> about trouble shooting

Brian,

I have the following two symbolic links in my /dev directory:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 May 28 19:25 cdrom -> /dev/scd0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 May 29 11:17 cdwriter -> /dev/sg0

and in /etc/grub.conf the boot stanza contains an hdc spec for my IDE
CD-RW drive:

       kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-13.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi

These two seem to take care of all my needs.

If you have both of these and you still can't see your CD-ROM, try
physically reseating all cable ends and check your dmesg output to see if
there are any errors detecting the presence of your CD-ROM.

--Doc Savage
  Fairview Heights, IL