My 2nd cdrom is recognized at boot, but unmountable.
Following the CD-HOWTO, I did this:
#dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/dev/null bs=2048
dd: /dev/cdrom2: Device not configured
#mount /mnt/cdrom2
mount: /dev/cdrom2 is not a valid block device
The CD-HOWTO says that if the first command (dd if=) doesn't work "then
a possible cause is the device file. Make sure than the device file in
the /dev directory has the correct major and minor numbers as listed
previously for your drive type. Check that the permissions on the device
file allow reading and writing. "
I'm afraid I don't know how to make sure that the device file has the
correct major and minor numbers. I assume permissions are not an issue
since I am root when I'm trying to do this.
Mandrake did detect this CDROM during setup and put an icon on my KDE
desktop for it, but it doesn't work.
Suggestions? I'd really like to get this working.
-Todd
P.S. I know this CDROM functions in Windows, so it's not a hardware
problem.
