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I just installed RH 7.2 and for some reason when I try to:
mount /mnt/cdrom
I get an error saying: mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
The Cd-Rom has a Cd inside of it, and for heavens sakes, I installed the distribution using it. The information refering to the Cd-Rom is in the /etc/fstab so the system has to have recognized it.
You might have a cdrom drive that is "blacklisted" in the ide-dma driver in the kernel. This happened to me and after three days I found out the problem (and how to fix it).
I had "(none)" in the /proc/ide/hdb/driver file.
To fix it, turn off DMA on the cdrom drive, e.g.
/sbin/hdparm -d0 /dev/hdb
If this works, then the contents of the driver file should change immediately.
Put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local for it to happen automatically at bootup.
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