On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, shock wrote:
> I've recently trashed a RH6.2 machine in favor of Debian Woody. > This is an all SCSI machine, with a Plextor CD-RW. When I mount any CD, > I get the following: > > # mount /cdrom > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device > > /cdrom, through /etc/fstab, points to /dev/cdrom: > > # cat /etc/fstab | grep cdrom > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,rw,user,noauto 0 0 > > /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/sr0: > > # ls -al /dev/cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 27 02:41 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 > > sr0 is recognized at boot-up: > > # dmesg | grep sr0 > > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray > > Also, ISO9660 is compiled into the kernel. > > Any idea as to why I can't mount a CDROM? Two ideas: /dev/sr0 doesn't exist, or has numbers other than 11,0 SCSI CD-ROM support is a module but isn't loaded. Try modprobe sr_mod (I think). -jwb
