Your report is a bit hard to read, so please forgive me if I have
misinterpreted what you sent.
1. /dev/cdrom is usually a symlink, not a real device entry. Is it
pointing to the right actual device (/dev/hd?, if your system is IDE, or
/dev/sd? if it is SCSI, where ? gets replaced with the right letter for the
physical drive)?
2. What is "/mnt/dosC"? I imagine it is a symlink to something (since it is
not in the fstab listing you sent), but I can't *guess* what it is.
3. In the fstab intfo you sent, both filesystems are "noauto", meaning that
you need (as root) to execute a mount command before the filesystem will be
present at the mount point. You do not mention doing so before trying the
floppy, and you only mention using some KDE app to mount the CD.
Try running the appropriate mount commands, as root, from the command line
(e.g., put in a floppy, then enter "mount /mnt/floppy", and do similar
things with an iso9660 CD) and seeing it that works. If not, please post
again, this time including
A. The COMPLETE cli command you enter and the COMPLETE error report.
B. The output of "ls -l /dev/cdrom"
C. Info on what kind of CD drive you have and what IDE or SCSI
channel it is connected to.
At 11:05 PM 8/22/02 +1200, cr wrote:
>I'm having trouble 'seeing' the floppy drive or the CD-ROM.
>
>I'm running RedHat 7.2, in all previous versions I had no trouble reading the
>floppy or CD-ROM, for example just by going cd /mnt/cdrom ls
>
>But now this doesn't work any more. Doesn't matter whether I'm 'me' or
>su root,
>cd /mnt/cdrom and cd /mnt/floppy apparently work, but
>a following ls won't show the files.
>
>mdir usually seems to work, though.
>
>Nautilus and Konqueror show /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy but not the
>contents. Konq in superuser mode shows a 'CDRom device' but then
>gives a message
>"Could not mount device
>The reported error was
>mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device"
>
>On the other hand, /mnt/dosC works fine.
>
>/etc/fstab says:
>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>
>Any suggestions of what might be wrong?
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