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I checked out the tips listed in chansky's post of CD-ROM mounting problems...
But I have something a little more unusual. When I go to mount my cdrom, I get a message saying 'mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device'. Immediately there after, I get an error message from the kernel that says 'spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7'
It points to hda but I've tried mounting it as hda as well. Still no dice. (same error)
After further investigation, I've noticed that the BIOS of this machine keep referring to this CD-ROm as ATAPI incompatible, even though it is the same drive I used 3 weeks ago to install the OS.
well seeing as hda is 99% definitely your main harddrive i should hope it wouldn't work!! try hdb, hdc and hdd just use /dev/hdX directly for now, forget abuot /dev/cdrom
I did something entirely weird. I have a Raid card and installed the Linux partition on to the RAID partition - therefore the OS seeing the CDROM as HDA should be legal, right?
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