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Hi all,

I am experiencing the same mounting problem with my
CD-ROM drive as discussed below.

RedHat 5.0, installed from an ATAPI-CD-ROM on IDE2
(jumpered as master), fails to mount the CD-ROM drive
with an error message like:
"The Kernel does not recongnize /dev/cdrom as a block
device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)."

It does not matter whether the mount is launched from
the shell (bash) or out of Metro-X (filesystem maintenance),
the error message always remains the same :-(

Now, /dev/cdrom exists as a link to /dev/hdc,
and  /mnt/cdrom is an (empty) directory.

Can anybody please help ???

Many thanks in advance,
Helmut.

PS: I have not edited the /etc/fstab yet as I would
consider this a bit hairy when "mount" does not do the trick.

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Perry Grieb wrote:

> In article <6l1hg9$bi7$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> wpresho@k2nesoft.com writes:
>
> > I have installed RedHat 5.0 on my machine and I am haveing the
> > following problems. (installed from CD-rom) when I try to mount
> > my CD-Rom Linux tells me "Can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or
> > /etc/fstab" when I go to X windows and use the file sytem button
> > it tell me the following "The Kernel does not recongnize
> > /dev/cdrom as a block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?). Since
> > this is the first time I have tried Linux, I have no Idea what
> > it is talking about. My cdrom is a Sony 32 Max, ATAPI, when
> > I boot the computer I can see where it says it is loading the
> > driver for ATAPI. All help will be greatly appreciated. Please
> > reply to wpresho@k2nesoft.com.
>
> Does "ls -l /dev/cdrom" show anything?  It is just a soft
> link to another device /dev/hd[bcd] and can be made with
> "ln".  See ln man page "man ln".  And "ls -l /dev/hd*"
> should show a /dev/hdc.
>
> Have you tried to manually mount the drive with
> "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" where /mnt/cdrom
> is any empty but pre-existing directory (maybe you use
> /cdrom instead?).
>
> I think RH maintains the /etc/fstab through the control-panel
> in X.  I run an older version of RH, not 5.0.  A "cat /etc/fstab"
> or "grep cdrom /etc/fstab" should show a line for where the
> cd mounts.  If not, it can be added by hand, but again, I thought
> RH did this through something in the control-panel.
>
> --
> Perry Grieb
> c23peg@eng.delcoelect.com
> Primary Application:  Win95 hour glass ... Is there a unix port?

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Helmut Thienel.
Email: Helmut.Thienel@t-online.de