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my cdrom drive won't mount

my fstab file:

Code:

/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

/dev/scd0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev        

0 0

/dev/cdrom2    /mnt/cdrom2    iso9660 ro,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev        

0 0

/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy    vfat nosuid,noauto,nodev,user  0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat    noauto,user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=

iso8859-1 0 0

/dev/zip        /mnt/zip        vfat nosuid,noauto,nodev,user  0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda7 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2

/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

chinacat.gamehenge:/ /mnt/bedroom nfs rw 0 0

okay...i want to mount the drive in line 3...it's an IDE cdrw on hdc...it's using scsi emulation...

i type in to mount the drive (as root):

mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom

it replies with:

mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device

anyone know what's going on here?

With scsi emulation, you have to tell it that it's an ide harddrive yet still. I believe it's scsi=ide or scd'x'=ide but I haven't had to worry about it so i haven't done it. That's what I'd look for.

is scsi emulation definitely setup in lilo, assuming you're using it....

i have the line

append=' hdc=ide-scsi '

in my lilo.conf, and then scd0 works fine