I'm using Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 with a Sony CDU-711 ATAPI cd-rom. When I attempt to mount the cd ("mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom"), it returns the following error message:
I also checked dmesg and could not find any references to hdc (the cd is set up as a secondary master). I don't think there's a problem with the cd-rom as I installed OpenLinux from a cd-boot...

Suggestions?

TIA

*edit: typo fixed*

[Edited by Yawmark on 06-17-2001 at 10:31 PM]

its the other way around:
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom", but you can also simplify this if the entry is in /etc/fstab, like:
"mount /mnt/cdrom" or "mount /dev/hdc"

I'm sorry - that's what I typed - got it backwards in the post.

It still doesn't work - same message. The following is located in /etc/fstab:

ok. what does "cat /var/log/messages | grep hdc" say? /dev/cdrom is actually a link to a real block device like /dec/sonycd. is it linked? try "ls -la /dev/cdrom" to see or "file /dev/cdrom". is your cdrom support a loadable module? then "lsmod" wills how if its loaded or look in /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION/fs for isofs.o or "cat /proc/modules". any errors before? changed the drive from slave to master?

"cat /var/log/messages..." returns:

June 17 20:26:22 linux kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio

I haven't changed anything on the drive, but it hasn't worked since install. It's not a propietary drive, so I'm assuming it uses the same IDE driver that's compiled in the kernel. Am I wrong about that???