On Sun, Jan 04, 1998 at 05:25:23AM -0500, Carl Nasal wrote: > I installed Debian (twice now) to try to get my CD-ROM installed. I > don't know much about the CD-ROM as it was installed about 3 years ago > and from moving around we've probably lost most of the documents about > it. From just reading the front of it, it says: > "Quad Speed // Creative // MPC2 (Multimedia PC)" > > Someone gave me the idea to try "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" > which just *tried* to detect my CD-ROM again which takes anywhere form 5 > - 15 minutes (never actually timed it). The last line of the "search" > and on was: > sbpcd-0 [29]: No drive found. > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device > (maybe 'insmod driver'?)
Well, firstly, /dev/cdrom is not automatically your CD-ROM drive. Usually, it's a symbolic link to the real drive's device name. If yours isn't the default type, then you have to either change the link, or not use it. In this case, /dev/cdrom seems to be linked to /dev/sbpcd0. sbpcd0 is for a SoundBlaster-style CD-ROM drive -- usually one that connects to your sound card or another interface card, but NOT to your IDE card or port on the motherboard. Now from the description of your CD-ROM drive, it sounds like this might be the right one, although I didn't think they ever made them in quad spin. What sort of card is your drive attached to? Usually I would think that sbpcd could find your drive if it's attached to a sound card. If it's attached to a special interface card it might not find it, I have some of those cards that live at addresses sbpcd doesn't look at. It might be an IDE drive. In that case, you want to try to mount /dev/hdb, hdc, or hdd; it could be any of those. Autodetection by the sbpcd driver does take a very long time. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. http://hamish.home.ml.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .