problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003, Keith Antoine wrote:
> What it biols down to is my total lack of comprehension of devfs and its workings.
> Although there could be something else stuffing the works up.
>
> I have installed, very recently, Mandrake 9.1 and evrything went smoothly except
> for my TV card (hauppage pctv 250) no drivers as yet.

Looks like there are drivers (rather primitive):
http://pvr.sourceforge.net/

> I found tonight that I cannot access any of my cd drives or floppy at all.
>
> fstab entries:
> none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
>
> When called from a terminal:
> [root at cpe-203-45-133-237 mnt]# cd cdrom
> bash: cd: cdrom: Input/output error
> [root at cpe-203-45-133-237 mnt]# cd cdrom2
> bash: cd: cdrom2: Input/output error

Perhaps this is just my ignorance of devfs talking, but what does the
output from the 'mount' command show you?

> I need to setup acess to 'dvd' as well and delete cdrom2 as that is my dvd writer.
> Lastly I have a need to setup an access point for my camera card reader, but I
> have no idea how to setup entries in /etc/devfs.conf. I have looked for something
> simple to guide me but there is a dearth of info online, or I am looking at the wrong things.

Sorry, not a clue.  I try to avoid devfs like the plague  :)

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