[newbie] Cant mount floppy or CDROM

[Eric Lauritzen]

I have Mandrake 8.0 installed.  I installed from the CDs and booted 
from floppy.

But now that I'm running Mandrake, I can't seem to mount any of my 
two CD drives or my floppy drive.

All the drives are recognized at boot.

But I keep getting the error:

mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

but /dev/cdrom shows up under KDE > Information > block devices

Could someone help me figure this out?

Thanks,

Eric