On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 08:54, achillemiele wrote:
> On Sunday 15 June 2003 13:14, root_sharif wrote:
> > i am new in linux...
> > Using Redhat 7.2 at the moment.
> > But CD rom is not working
> > properly
> > whenever i insert a cd and
> > click on the cdrom icon from my desktop
> > i get the message "unknow device /dev/cdrom"
> >
> > My fstab configuration is as it's attached...
> > pls check it .. and help me out.
> 
> Your error message refers to a dev error, not a fstab problem.
> Try typing 'ls -l /dev/cdrom' and see if you have that device, it would have 
> to point to the 'real' cdrom. This is my case:
> 
> # ls -l /dev/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 12 apr 18:55 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdb
> 
> Achille
> 

Try this and check if the cdrom is really the "/dev/hdb" device with the
following command:

# cat /proc/ide/hdb/model

This may return the model of your cdrom device. If don't, check out the
others ide devices in the /proc/ide/ directory.


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