On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Bob Jiggins 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.
>
> 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
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