I have debian woody on my T42. Recently after an upgrade, my cdrom is not recognised. Below is a copy of my fstab and other useful inputs for experts.

/etc/fstab:

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# /media devices, user-mountable:
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda /media/usb-floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usb-storage vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda4 /media/usb-zip vfat defaults,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/usb-cdrom iso9660 defaults,user,noauto 0 0


cat /proc/ide/hdc/model
HL-DT-STCD-RW/DVD DRIVE GCC-4242N

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

Please help

try changing /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc

Try runig this (as root):

Is your ide-cd module loaded. lsmod to see it.

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Well after a reboot, same problem appears.
I guess some sort of auto link or mount might help. Does any body know this.




Thank you all!

Are you using devfs or udev, per chance? If so you can alter the config files for whichever to automatically create the device on boot-up. Alternatively, a dirty method to fix this would be putting a script called e.g., cdrom in /etc/init.d/ that reads as follows:

#!/bin/sh
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
#EOF

...then making it executable:

# chmod u+x /etc/init.d/cdrom

...then using update-rc.d:

# update-rc.d cdrom.sh start 99 2 3 4 5 .

...where the # are obviously meant to be as root. A kludge of a way to do it, but fool-proof.

hs

In that case I suggest the second method I outlined. It will work no matter what; don't worry about udev or devfs.

hs

I had the same problem. It turns out the /media/cdrom0 was missing.

/cdrom was linked to /media/cdrom which was linked to /media/cdrom0.

so I made the mount point (mkdir /media/cdrom0), then mounted it (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom).

I hope that helped.

Novarkin....