Hey Harvey,
Try this from a console : dmesg | grep hd
This will search the boot up messages for anything with an hd and
display it. This should help you with troubleshooting the problem.
I attached a copy of my machines output for reference.
JP
Harvey Ussery wrote:
I've just installed DebianPPC3.0(Woody) on an 833Mhz iMac 17"LCD. I
cannot mount cdrom drive.
In /dev/cdrom the link to cdrom shows as:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 21 11:50 cdrom -> hdb
and hdb shows as:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 64 Mar 14 2002 hdb
In /etc/fstab the line for /cdrom is:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9960 ro,user,noauto 0 0
But when I do:
mount cdrom [as root]
hdb: driver not present
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
Since I installed Woody from the official CDs, I would have assumed
the driver for the CDROM is in place. Why am I getting "hdb: driver
not present"? Likewise, why is /dev/cdrom showing as not a valid device?
Any assistance for a debian newbie or pointers to the relevant doc
greatly appreciated. Thanks. --HU
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Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=305 quiet devfs=mount
hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=on
ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb800-0xb807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb808-0xb80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD1200JB-75CRA0, ATA DISK drive
hdb: CD-RW 40X12, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: DMA disabled
hdb: DMA disabled
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX0811, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: DMA disabled
hdd: DMA disabled
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: setmax LBA 234375120, native 234375000
hda: 234375000 sectors (120000 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=14589/255/63, UDMA(100)
