At 11:55 28/07/99 +0100, you wrote:
>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.
It looks like you may have hdd (the secondary ide slave) linked to
/dev/cdrom whereas it should be hdc (secondary ide master).
Can you insert a Linux disk in the cdrom and do
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" ??
If that works try
"umount /mnt/cdrom"
then
"rm /dev/cdrom; ln /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom"
and then
"mount /dev/cdrom"
(Or just change the CDROM from master to slave with those little
links on the back of it).
if that fails may I have the output of:
"ls -lai /dev/hdc"
"ls -lai /dev/hdd"
"ls -lai /dev/cdrom"
Feel free to email me privately - I don't have much else on today.
>Hope somebody can help a pressured sociologist!
>
I'll try :)
hih
nick@nexnix
