On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Bob Jiggins wrote:
> 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!!!
>
> --------
> 'kernel does not recognise /dev/cdrom/ as a block device (maybe
> > insmod driver?)'
> ----------
>
> 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!
>
hmm. What kind of cdrom do you have? You may not believe this, but
some older cdrom drives didn't work well as a master. They almost
positively required a hard drive to be their master and they would be its
slave.
however, if you had it working under redhat 5.2, but it doesn't work
under mandrake 6.x, I strongly suspect something in the kernel driver
package. Perhaps an updated kernel?
bug
