Date sent: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:13:40 -0500 (CDT)
From: Bug Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bob Jiggins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [expert] Block device not recognised - no CDROM!
Thanks for this unbelievably prompt reply!
> OOPS! sorry about the last one.
>
> if your cdrom went out, it may not have been seen by the kernel probing
> at boot. Perhaps you have the master/slave jumper in the slave position
> on the cdrom? I've seen them work without a master drive using the slave
> jumper, but be erratic.
I checked the jumpers and found there was no jumper (odd) - but
canabalised one from an old motherboard and set it as 'master'.
Then. for sme reason I thought I'd better check the bios and found
the cdrom confgured as a slave (odd again) and restored it to its
rightful place as master on the secondary IDE controller.
Then, for good measure I totally reinstalled Mandrake 6.
Then... I got the right message (hard linked hdc to dev/cdrom)
which is as it should be - so thankyou for setting me straight on
this one!
But!!!
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'kernel does not recognise /dev/cdrom/ as a block device (maybe
> insmod driver?)'
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when using mount /dev/cdrom
then tried mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
and got 'kernel does not recognise /dev/hdc as a block device
(maybe insmod driver)'
Still buggered! Help!
Thanks
Bob
