I'm going by <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml? part=1&chap=8> to mount the cdrom and cdrw drives, but it's failing.
There are two optical drives: a CD-ROM and a CD-R/W; both drives work physically. When I enter "mount /mnt/cdrom1" or "mount /mnt/cdrw1" then I hear a drive spin before it fails, but "mount /dev/cdrom" doesn't cause any noise. They all fail, error messages: arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # ll /dev/cd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 21 23:36 /dev/cdrom -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 21 23:36 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 21 23:36 /dev/cdrw1 -> hdd arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # cat /etc/fstab /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/cdrw1 /mnt/cdrw1 auto noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hdb1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdb3 / ext3 noatime 0 1 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/VolGroup00/LogVol00 ext3 users,rw 0 0 arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount -a arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No buffer space available arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrom1 mount: block device /dev/cdrom1 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No buffer space available arrakis ~ # arrakis ~ # mount /mnt/cdrw1 mount: block device /dev/cdrw1 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: No buffer space available arrakis ~ # thanks, Thufir -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
