Tundra wrote:
> I recently purchased a CD-rw device. I installed it. The CD subsequently was
> able to be mounted properly and info read off of appropriate type of CD's. It
> also
> played music correctly.
>
> I tried that night to enable its "write" feature that night. I was unsuccessful.
>
> While getting ready to revisit it a few days later,I noticed now I cannot mount
> a CD nor play music from it.
>
> I have tried all various mounting commands of which I am aware. I continually
> receive the same error message, to wit:
> '/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device'
>
> I believe it likely that while 'messing' with it and attempting to enable the
> write features of the cd/player, I somehow screwed up its existing capabilities.
> Unfortunately, it was so late at night, I don't recall with any detail what I
> did.
>
> Any thoughts on options to cure this problem would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks.
I can think of two likely causes of this. I am assuming this is an IDE
cdrw drive. If you deleted or otherwise messed up the symbolic link
"/dev/cdrom", then you could get the message. The link originally was
probably pointing to /dev/hdc, assuming your cdrw is the primary device
on the secondary IDE interface.
The other likely possibility was that you were playing with putting
append="hdc=ide-scsi" into your lilo.conf file. If you do this but don't
actually (successfully) load the ide-scsi module, then you will get the
same message. If you had the append line there but then removed it,
don't forget to rerun /sbin/lilo.
To continue trying to get the the burning working, you might want to
take a look at:
http://www.leewardfpga.com/cdrw.html
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