Jim....it sounds like /dev/cdrom is a softlink pointing to
/dev/fd0. It should be a softlink pointing to /dev/hdd
instead.
Alan
Jim Brown wrote:
>
> Thanks for all of your help and quick responses!!!
> The /dev/hdd doesn't work at all for any type of disk. I've tried music cd,
> linux-mandrake 7.0 install cd, and a dos cd, none work with /dev/hdd.
> The /dev/cdrom mount I spoke of before accesses the floppy drive. I
> just don't understand what's going on.
>
> Eduardo Arauz wrote:
>
> > what types of files are you trying to mount? remember that you cant mount music cd
>roms in your hdd....
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jim Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 7:44 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] CD Rom not accessible
> >
> > I tried "mount /dev/hdd cdrom" but that doesn't work. I messed
> > with my fstab. Not it looks like "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount
> > exec,dev/suid,rw,fs=iso9660 0 0" but when I run "mount /dev/cdrom"
> > it now accesses the floppy drive!!! Close, but no cigar. Any idea
> > what I'm doing wrong???
> >
> > Eduardo Arauz wrote:
> >
> > > have you mounted your cdrom ?
> > > try to umount it and mount it again on hdd
> > > mount /dev/hdd cdrom
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jim Brown [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 9:30 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [newbie] CD Rom not accessible
> > >
> > > I'm having trouble accessing my CDRom for Music and data.
> > > When I click on the CDRom Icon with a windows or linux
> > > (mandrake install disk) cd, I can't see any data. When I get
> > > into the kscd program, it can't find a disk. When I go to
> > > lothar it finds my cd (model: CRW6206A, device:/dev/hdd
> > > bustype: atapi/ide). When I go back to kscd and try to set
> > > /dev/hdd in the cdrom device it still doesn't see it. When I go
> > > to drakeconf and then click filesystems and local drive, I
> > > can set the cdrom to /dev/hdd, but that doesn't help either.
> > > I guess I'm a newbie. Please help.
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