Date sent: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:44:37 -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!
> > --------
> > '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.
Acer I think - 18x and ATAPI
> 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?
Functioned A1 under redhat 5.2 and win95 (still does under this
last!)
The Linux version is 2.2.9-19mdk which arived 2/3 days ago on the
Mandrake 6 disk. I presume this is the most recent kernel on
Mandrakes distribution.
Thanks
Bob
> bug
