If it worked before you moved it.
try checking your cables.
it sounds like two cables are loose check both ends.
your floppy and cdrom
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Schwindt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2000 1:27 PM
Subject: [expert] Re: Digest of list expert
> Sarang Lakare wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > After rebooting my machine (had to move the machine at a diff place), I
am
> > not able to mount my cdrom drive. I hda problems with supermount and so
i
> > disabled it and then I played a lot with autofs.. I dont' know if that
is
> > causing this problem..
> >
> > This is waht I get when I try to mount cdrom
> >
> > [root@vx15 lsarang]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
> > mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device
> > (maybe `insmod driver'?)
> >
> > I have an IDE cd burner which is at /dev/hdc and lilo/grub has the
string "
> > hdc=ide-scsi" postfixed. I have tried mounting /dev/hdc , /dev/scd0 etc
but
> > same results.
> >
> Why don't you try:
>
> insmod ide-scsi
> (be logged on as root)
>
> if it is already loaded, try mounting sr0, as ide-scsi puts it on as a
generic
> scsi device, not a block device. I too have an IDE CDRW on hdc (slave
drive on
> ide1) and mine shows up for reading a /dev/sr0. I made a symbolic link
cdrw ->
> /dev/sr0 to facilitate remembering this fact.
>
> Here is my /dev listing for my cd-roms:
>
> brw------- 1 chris root 22, 64 Jul 22 11:01 cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 19 08:53 cdrw -> /dev/sr0
>
> brw-r--r-- 1 root root 11, 0 Jul 7 1999 sr0
>
>
> --
> regards,
> Chris Schwindt
> Linux cjsmain 2.2.16-1cjs #5 Sun Jul 23 15:02:03 EDT 2000 i586 unknown
> 2:30pm up 3:34, 1 user, load average: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00
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