Toshiba Satellite and no go CD drive
 

I have just installed Fedora 3 on a Toshiba Satellite 1730CDT notebook computer. It loaded OK off the CD's but now i can't mount the CD drive.

Using $ dmesg|more I get the following:
hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
so I know it at least realises that I have a CD drive.

However /media/cdrom/ is empty and whenever I give the mount command it just sits there doing nothing. I have edited /etc/fstab to amend the line to read:
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro, noauto, user 0 0 , but to no avail.

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks

John, Melbourne, Australia

Did you try this?
you might also try to look for it somewhere as "sda".

Hi aggrosk8rdude

Thanks for your reply. When I try the 'mount' command I get the following reply -
mount: can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

No sign of sda.

Regards

John

If you want the mount folder to be at /media/cdrom you need your fstab line to be as follows:

/dev/hdc /media/cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0

For the mount to work, ro,noauto,user must not have any spaces inbetween, and also you forgot to put /media at the start. :)

Try it now.

DeepBlue.

Thanks Deep Blue for your help. It is now 8.30am here in Australia and I am at work so I will try your suggestion this evening when I am at home.

Cheers

John