If indeed both CD-ROMs are IDE then make sure the jumper setting for
Master/Slave for them are set correctly. Usually, IDE CD-ROMs are
configured as the Master on the Secondary IDE port (i.e. /dev/hdc).
If the older CD-ROM is IDE but jumpered as Slave - without a Master on the
same IDE port, you probably won't get it to work in any condition.
If the older CD-ROM is not IDE then it may require its own adapter card in
which it may be emulating SCSI.
-Rod
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Gevaerts Frank wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, ~Jase wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > A big thanks for all the replies on my last subject of "True DOS prompt
> > for NT?".
> >
> > I'm facing another dilemma now with another Linux (RH5) box. I removed
> > the internal cdrom drive that it had and replaced it with another older
> > slower one. The problem now is that it no longer mounts the cdrom
> > drive. I get error messages that it can't find /mnt/cdrom,
> > /dev/cdrom...etc. I haven't changed anything, only the actual device.
> > Am I missing something? Thank you.
>
> If both are IDE cdroms, maybe the old one was master and the new one is
> slave or something. /dev/cdrom is usually a symlink to /dev/hdc (secondary
> master), or /dev/hdd(secondary slave) or something
>
> Is the cdrom drive detected at bootup? (try dmesg|less)
>
> Frank
> >
> > ~jase
> >
> >
>
