can't acces cdrom

[Joel Hammer]

This could be simple or hard.
What kind of system do you have, scsi or ide?
Are you using devfs?
What brand and make of cdrom are you running. Are special drivers required? 
What do you have in /dev regarding cdrom. Is there a /dev/cdrom?
Running MAKEDEV generic doesn't show any generic cdrom device. 

If you are using ide, maybe just make /dev/cdrom a link to the /dev/hd[a-d][1?].

I have this in my older box which doesn't use devfs:
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            9 Dec  3  2002 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0
brwxrwxrwx   1 root     disk      11,   0 Feb 17  2000 /dev/scd0
This must be because my cd burner software uses scsi to connect with the cdrom.


In my new box with devfs, I have this:
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           13 Jan 24 18:35 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0
lr-xr-xr-x    1 root     root           34 Dec 31  1969 cdrom0 -> ../scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd

Joel


On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 10:35:40AM +0700, Yosua wrote:
> 
> Hi guys, i need help related to mounting cdrom.
> i have ever mount cdrom but this time i does not work.
> 
> i got error message : "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device"
> 
> the fstab file contain the following lines:
> "/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro           
> 0   0"
> 
> what's the problem? can somebody help me.