Todd Wells wrote:
>
> 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.
What kind of CDrom is it?
SCSI
ATAPI
is it a cdrom burner?
/dev/cdrom2 is probably a link pointing to the wrong thing. Tell us
what kind it is and we may tell you it's real name.
example: an ATAPI cdrom set as slave on 2nd E-IDE channel would be
/dev/hdd
