At 08:01 PM 3/9/01 +0530, Sajith Menon wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a linux 6.2 redhat box. If I try to mount a cd using 'mount
>/mnt/cdrom', i get an error saying
> hdd: driver not present
> /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
>
>Any idea what will be the error due to and how to solve it.
It sounds like you don't have support for the relevant type of CD drive in
your kernel. If so, one solution is to recompile your kernel. Another is to
load the driver appropriate or your CD drive as a module via modprobe. Since
support for normal atapi CD drives is built into every default kernel I know
of from a full-size distribution, I'm guessing that you have an older drive
that uses one of the oddball drivers, but I've no way of knowing which one.
Tgis assumes /dev/cdrom is correctly symlinked to /dev/hdd (that is, that
hdd is the correct designator for your hardware), and the drive contains a
readable CD.
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