Paul wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John Catral wrote:
>
> >
> >it points to hdc
> >
> >Paul wrote:
> >
> >> >I tried changing the auto to iso9660 and I still get the "mount:
> >/mnt/cdrom is not a
> >> >valid block device" I tried all combinations (/dev/cdrom, /dev/hdc,
> >/mnt/cdrom) and
> >> >still the same error message. I can mount the second cdrom though.
> >"mount /dev/cdrom2
> >> >/mnt/cdrom2" works but not the primary cdrom. Arerrgg!! =( HELP!!!! =(
> >>
> >> ls -l /dev/cdrom
> >>
> >> Where does it point to then?
>
> Hmmm, that should be the right one.
> The line for my CDRom in fstab is this:
>
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
>
> I assume that sort of matches yours. Very strange that it won't work, I
> have not yet heard of a CDRom that won't work in Linux.
>
> Unlikely idea, but still: can you mount cdrom2 to /mnt/cdrom ?
>
> umount /mnt/cdrom
> mount /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom
>
> Just to see if there is nothing wrong with /mnt/cdrom. If that works, try
>
> umount /mnt/cdrom2
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom2
>
> Curious what that would give you. Stranger things have happened...
> Paul
Well, i tried mounting /dev/cdrom2 to /mnt/cdrom and it worked.
When I tried mounting /dev/cdrom to /mnt/cdrom2 I still got the same
error.."mount:/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device"
wahhhh! =( Anymore tips? =(
John
