Have you tried just using 'mount /mnt/cdrom'?
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> Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 9:45 AM
> To: Bob Jiggins
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> Subject: Re: [expert] Block device not recognised - no CDROM!
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> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Bob Jiggins wrote:
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> > 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?)'
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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!
> >
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> bug
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