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Old 08-24-2004, 09:25 AM   #1
dwaldie
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mount problems for cdrom


Hello all,
I have just installed Conectiva 10 and am having major problems with mounting cdrom drives, I can't. I have searched google and tried every piece of advise that I could understand and yet nothing seems to work.

I just re-installed Conectiva because I really messed up my /etc/fstab file and forgot to write down what it was origally. When I try to mount the cdrom in terminal it just hangs. I am ussing the command mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom and it just sits there with a blinking cursor. My DVD rom drive does not seem to be getting accessed at all (no blinking lights).

Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
Dave
 
Old 08-24-2004, 09:32 AM   #2
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Have you confirmed that your cdrom is the primary device plugged into IDE1 ? (checked the jumper etc.)
Does your BIOS report the device as the master on the second IDE ?
 
Old 08-24-2004, 09:49 AM   #3
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My DVD drive is the secondary master and my cdr/w drive is the secondary slave
 
Old 08-24-2004, 10:26 AM   #4
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OK, so you would expect your cdrom to be at /dev/hdd.
Does your fstab contain an entry linking these? If so, you should be able to just
mount /mnt/cdrom

The mount command in your example may have needed to specify a filesystem type, eg:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
 
  


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