I have an old Packard Bell machine on which I have installed Red Hat Publisher's Edition Version 7.2. I have installed a new CD drive on it, and it is not working. The CD drive I installed is a Samsung SH 152 A.

When I do a mount command, it says
dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
Of course means there is not a CD in the drive (which there is).

I looked in the fstab file, and there is a line:
dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

The old CD drive was working, after a fashion. It would read a commercially-burned CD but not one burned on another PC.

Is there some Linux command I am missing, or is it possible I installed a crappy drive? It is refurbished, I know. I am a Linux newbie, and I would appreciate any insights you could give me.

Thanks

Mmmm, looks like you forgot to place correctly the jumper. Bad boy...

The jumpers are set to master. This CD drive is the only thing on this cable, so I assume (yes, I know the danger of assuming) that is should be set to master.

Also, I forgot to say in my original post, the systems does recognize the CD drive when it boots up.

Thanks

Do you know about /dev/hda /dev/hdb /dev/hdc /dev/hdd ?

Welcome to LQ waynefrank. Perhaps the problem is with the actual mount command that you are attempting - what exactly are you typing? Also, is the CD a music CD, or a data CD? Music CD's cannot be mounted, so if that's what you're trying, you'll definitely get an error. It is only necessary to issue mount commands on data CD's. -- J.W.

It is a data CD I am trying to mount. I have tried several different ones.

Yes, I know about the different device files.
There is a cdrom file in /dev.

I do the command:

mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

It replys:
Mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

Do I possibly need a different driver or what?