On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 13:03, Noah A Hicks wrote:
> I have a problem with my cd-rom drive on my dell latitude ls-400.  If I
> boot with a cd in the drive the system hangs during boot.  This is just a
> regular data cd with some picture files on it.  If I boot with the cd
> drive empty and place a cd in the drive after boot up is complete, the
> system doesn't seem to know that the drive exists.  It will not read the
> drive and when I type cd /mnt/cdrom and then ls I can see no files on the
> disk.
> This is a removable (plug in drive) that came with my computer.  Can
> anyone offer any sujestions?
> Thanks
> -Noah

What about trying:

mount /dev/hdb

...instead?

...and if that works, you can do a

ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom

...and should be fixed...give that a shot and tell us what happens -
Cheers!

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