OK, now I have that straight - the cd IS hdb.

But I still have the system trying to load the floppy driver to mount 
the cd!

On 29 Apr 2004 at 10:18, John Clarke wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 10:11:08AM +1000, Edwin Humphries wrote:
> 
> > Should the /dev/cdrom symlink be pointing to /dev/hdc rather than 

> 
> Yes, *if* your CD is the master device on the secondary IDE
> controller. Primary master is hda, primary slave is hdb, secondary
> master is hdc and secondary slave is hdd.
> 
> > dev/hdb? If so, how do I change it - I haven't done that yet?
> 
> ln -sf hdc /dev/cdrom
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
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