Hi and help! I hope there's somebody who can help with this.
There seems tro have been a fair bit of traffic about zip drives and
'kernel not recognising /dev/? as block device' etc. I have the same
problem but with a cdrom and cannot shoehorn the ideas on zip
drives to solve this one!
The system is Mandrake 6 - my old Redhat 5.2 never had these
problems...
On boot I see the message 'hard linked hdd to dev/cdrom' but
can never mount the cdrom (or play music CDs!). The system
responds with a message like
'kernel does not recognise /dev/cdrom/ as a block device (maybe
insmod driver?)'
Nor will it recognise /dev/hdd as a block device,
or /dev/hdc (which should be the CDROM) as the only device on the
secondary IDE controller.
I gather that a needed module is not loaded and much searching of
FAQ's etcs has revealed that there should (maybe?) be two files -
either isofs.o or ide-cd.o to deal with the CDROM - which btw is a
bog-standard ATAPI device (Acer is the make I think).
I ought to add I've tried both 'upgrading' and an clean install and on
both occasions I cannot get it to function! Is this a bug?
Hope somebody can help a pressured sociologist!
Bob
Bob Jiggins
Research Unit in South East European Studies
University of Bradford
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