Re: can't mount block device when it IS a block device!

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From: Mike Battersby
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 1995 00:00

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hankin@donut.dialix.oz.au (Hankin Chick) writes:
>I'm trying to install my cd-rom with mount /t iso9660 /dev/scd0 -r /mnt

I presume you used -t not /t.

>but it gives an error "/dev/scd0 is not a block device"
>when I do a "ls -l /dev/scd0" it clearly IS a block
>device(I presume the first character in the file type means
>b=block, c=character).

Sounds like you don't have the scsi CD-ROM driver in your kernel,
or it could not detect either your scsi controller or the drive
itself.

 - Mike

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