First of all, I didn't write that.. hahah
But the other thing to do is check your symlinks.
Make sure the devices are linked properly. I know
there is an issue with burners not linking properly.
By any chance is one of these cd-roms a burner?
A quick way to check for this is to look in your
Todd Flinders wrote:
I cannot access my zip or floppy drives, even when logged in as root.
The message I get is "input/output error." While researching this issue,
the only hint I found was "try a different disk, you probably have a bad
one in the drive." But, the floppy is a Mandrake boot disk,