Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: >... >kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 >kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total. >kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4110000 [2006 >MB] [2.0 GB] >kernel: SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4110000 [2006 >MB] [2.0 GB] > > >If I read these messages correctly, my CDROM should be /dev/sr0
Yes > >I pop-in a CD and do the following - > ># mount -t umsdos /dev/sr0 /cdrom >mount: the kernel does not recogonize /dev/sr0 as a block device > (maybe `insmod driver'?) > ># mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /cdrom >mount: the kernel does not recogonize /dev/sr0 as a block device > (maybe `insmod driver'?) > > >My kernel has umsdos, iso9660, SCSI CD-ROM support compiled in. > ># ls -l /dev/sr0 >brw-r--r-- 1 root root 22, 0 Jul 24 17:46 /dev/sr0 Block device 22,0 is the second IDE interface, i.e. /dev/hdc. The /dev/sr0 device should be 11,0. Delete this device and recreate it with the correct major number as posted by someone else. Then it will work. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .