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hello hello - i know this question has been asked before, but in my searches through the archives here i've yet to find anyone to get a solution to this problem, or at least one that has helped me out.
here's the situation: anything i put into my dvd player i simply cannot get to mount. for the record, i'm running fedora 2 with kernel 2.6.6.
from #dmesg, the drive in question is listed as /dev/hdc, and when i do a #mount -t /dev/hdc, nothing happens, no error message, but no indication that it was mounted or anything.
so i try: #mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom and i get the error message:
/dev/hdc is not a valid block device
i have a cd-writer installed as /dev/hdd and when i take the same cd and put it in that drive, it mounts without a hitch.
well....any and every download directory there is empty, so that didn't bring me any further.
i've tried modifiying my fstab a little, and after doing that i get only keep getting the following:
#mount /dev/dvd /mnt/dvd
#/dev/dvd is not a valid block device <---- /dev/dvd i linked to my drive, hdc (taken from dmesg)
here's what my fstab looks like (the relevent parts at least):
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf,iso9660 noauto, owner, ro 0 0
ferkel; seems it maybe a misconfig with device installation. from all instruction i,ve read they appear to be fromwithin cd/dvd format. not hdd.
could be wrong my apology.
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