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! -- Sat Jan 11 13:10:01 EST 2003 1:10pm up 15:21, 4 users, load average: 0.08, 0.47, 0.58 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ * linux user:267497 * RH 7.3+ * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting ------------------------------------------------------------------ The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.
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