Someone reported to the expert list within the past three days that the CD drive worked fine during install but then had trouble hdc: no driver installed mounting afterward. I have duplicated the performance. SUbject drive : Creative CDRW no other CDs Install Class : Custom Type : Development Security : Low It was on device hdd but an attenpt to mount /dev/cdrom produced the message no driver installed I tried /dev/hdd next on a mount instruction and was told not a block device I was in console so I coudl see complete feedback # modprobe ide-scsi reported back to me that it had found and attached /dev/sr0 # mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /root/tmp worked. This "hand installation" can be automated to good effect. So for those who have the single CDRW /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0 should be the line in /etc/fstab. I suppose it could say /dev/cdrw instead if an additional folder is created in /mnt for it but we don't have the cdrw mounted to blank or burn anyway. and in /etc/conf.modules alias block-major-11 ide-scsi and in /etc/lilo.conf append="hdc=ide-scsi" or hdd or hdb depending on where it is installed together with /sbin/lilo, of course. And for the purists, right-click the CDROM icon and go to properties and change the name to CDRW. Also change the url if you made the line in /etc/fstab point to mount point /dev/cdrw. Civileme
