* Jeffrey W. Baker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: > > > 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 > > > > Two ideas: > > /dev/sr0 doesn't exist, or has numbers other than 11,0
# ls -al /dev/sr0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Dec 13 19:32 /dev/sr0 -> scd0 how do i know what its numbers are? do i need to delete it and recreate it? > SCSI CD-ROM support is a module but isn't loaded. Try modprobe sr_mod (I > think). SCSI CD-ROM support is compiled into the kernel. -- ____) ,_) ,_) (-(__ |_ _ _ |/ ____) | |(_)(_ |\ ( \_, _______________________________________________ | http://www.exitwound.org : hard to find | _______________________________________________ | BOFH excuse #143: had to use hammer to free | | stuck disk drive heads. | _______________________________________________ -------------BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK------------- | Version: 3.1 | | GJ/IT d- s: a C+++>$ UL++++ P+++ L+++ E--- W++| | N+@ o K- w O- M- V PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t+@ 5@ X++ | | R tv+@ b+ DI++++ D+ G++ e++++ h---- r+++ y+++ | --------------END GEEK CODE BLOCK--------------
