LinuxQuestions.org - Problem mounting ieee1394 cdrom (dell x200)

Hi,
I am unable to mount my firewire cdrom that connects to dell x200 laptop. I am using Slackware 10 with the 2.4.26 kernel. I have recomplied the kernel, so that all necessary modules are built in ( ieee1394, ohci1394, sbp2, scsi support with generic/cdrom/disk support) . My fstab file lists cdrom as
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto, user, exec,ro 0 0
where /dev/cdrom points to /dev/scd0

When I try to mount the cdrom, I get the error message /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device. When I had Suse 8.2 installed, the cdrom drive worked, so I know linux supports it.

Here is some relevant kernel/boot up info ... Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Huey

SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
ohci1394: $Rev: 1045 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[11] MMIO=[e0200000-e02007ff] Max Packet=[2048]
video1394: Installed video1394 module
raw1394: /dev/raw1394 device initialized
sbp2: $Rev: 1074 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
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ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[00065b80010f7d8b]
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for IEEE-1394 SBP-2 Devices
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ieee1394: sbp2: Logged into SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node 0-01:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
ieee1394: Node added: ID:BUS[0-01:1023] GUID[00065b80020f3813]
ieee1394: The root node is not cycle master capable; selecting a new root node and resetting...
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-01:1023 -> 0-00:1023
ieee1394: sbp2: Reconnected to SBP-2 device
ieee1394: sbp2: Node 0-00:1023: Max speed [S400] - Max payload [2048]
ieee1394: Node changed: 0-00:1023 -> 0-01:1023
Adding Swap: 393552k swap-space (priority -1)
scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices