Hi.. I want to find my cdroms in order to mount them,.. I think that the kernel haven't find them at boot time

My kernel is 2.6.8.-2-386 Debian and my ls -l /dev is

3v1l:/usr/src/linux-2.4.20# ls -l /dev
total 0
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 2005-02-11 17:11 adsp
crw-rw---- 1 root video 10, 175 2005-02-11 17:11 agpgart
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2005-02-11 17:11 audio
crw-rw---- 1 root root 5, 1 2005-02-11 17:12 console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2005-02-11 17:11 core -> /proc/kcore
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2005-02-11 17:11 dsp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-02-11 17:11 fd -> /proc/self/fd
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2005-02-11 17:11 fd0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 2005-02-11 17:11 full
prw------- 1 root root 0 2005-02-11 17:11 initctl
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 2005-02-11 17:11 input
crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 2 2005-02-11 17:11 kmem
crw-rw---- 1 root root 1, 11 2005-02-11 17:11 kmsg
srw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 2005-02-11 17:12 log
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2005-02-11 17:11 loop
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2005-02-11 17:11 MAKEDEV -> /sbin/MAKEDEV
crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 1 2005-02-11 17:11 mem
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 0 2005-02-11 17:11 mixer
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 60 2005-02-11 17:11 net
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2005-02-11 17:11 null
crw-r----- 1 root kmem 1, 4 2005-02-11 17:11 port
crw------- 1 root root 108, 0 2005-02-11 17:11 ppp
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 1 2005-02-11 17:11 psaux
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 2 2005-02-11 17:29 ptmx
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 2005-02-11 17:11 pts
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 0 2005-02-11 17:11 ram0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 1 2005-02-11 17:11 ram1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 10 2005-02-11 17:11 ram10
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 11 2005-02-11 17:11 ram11
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 12 2005-02-11 17:11 ram12
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 13 2005-02-11 17:11 ram13
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 14 2005-02-11 17:11 ram14
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 15 2005-02-11 17:11 ram15
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 2 2005-02-11 17:11 ram2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 3 2005-02-11 17:11 ram3
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 4 2005-02-11 17:11 ram4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 5 2005-02-11 17:11 ram5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 6 2005-02-11 17:11 ram6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 7 2005-02-11 17:11 ram7
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 8 2005-02-11 17:11 ram8
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 1, 9 2005-02-11 17:11 ram9
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 8 2005-02-11 17:11 random
crw-rw-r-- 1 root audio 10, 135 2005-02-11 17:11 rtc
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 2005-02-11 17:11 sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 2005-02-11 17:11 sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 2005-02-11 17:11 sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 3 2005-02-11 17:11 sda3
drwxrwxrwt 3 root root 60 2005-02-11 17:11 shm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 160 2005-02-11 17:11 snd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 2005-02-11 17:11 sndstat -> /proc/asound/oss/sndstat
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-02-11 17:11 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-02-11 17:11 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 2005-02-11 17:11 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 2005-02-11 17:12 tty
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 0 2005-02-11 17:11 tty0
crw------- 1 root tty 4, 1 2005-02-11 17:26 tty1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 10 2005-02-11 17:11 tty10
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 11 2005-02-11 17:11 tty11
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 12 2005-02-11 17:11 tty12
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 13 2005-02-11 17:11 tty13
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 14 2005-02-11 17:11 tty14
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 15 2005-02-11 17:11 tty15
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 16 2005-02-11 17:11 tty16
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 17 2005-02-11 17:11 tty17
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 18 2005-02-11 17:11 tty18
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 19 2005-02-11 17:11 tty19
crw------- 1 root root 4, 2 2005-02-11 17:12 tty2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 20 2005-02-11 17:11 tty20
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 21 2005-02-11 17:11 tty21
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 22 2005-02-11 17:11 tty22
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 23 2005-02-11 17:11 tty23
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 24 2005-02-11 17:11 tty24
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 25 2005-02-11 17:11 tty25
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 26 2005-02-11 17:11 tty26
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 27 2005-02-11 17:11 tty27
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 28 2005-02-11 17:11 tty28
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 29 2005-02-11 17:11 tty29
crw------- 1 root root 4, 3 2005-02-11 17:12 tty3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 30 2005-02-11 17:11 tty30
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 31 2005-02-11 17:11 tty31
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 32 2005-02-11 17:11 tty32
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 33 2005-02-11 17:11 tty33
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 34 2005-02-11 17:11 tty34
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 35 2005-02-11 17:11 tty35
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 36 2005-02-11 17:11 tty36
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 37 2005-02-11 17:11 tty37
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 38 2005-02-11 17:11 tty38
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 39 2005-02-11 17:11 tty39
crw------- 1 root root 4, 4 2005-02-11 17:12 tty4
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 40 2005-02-11 17:11 tty40
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 41 2005-02-11 17:11 tty41
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 42 2005-02-11 17:11 tty42
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 43 2005-02-11 17:11 tty43
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 44 2005-02-11 17:11 tty44
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 45 2005-02-11 17:11 tty45
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 46 2005-02-11 17:11 tty46
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 47 2005-02-11 17:11 tty47
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 48 2005-02-11 17:11 tty48
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 49 2005-02-11 17:11 tty49
crw------- 1 root root 4, 5 2005-02-11 17:12 tty5
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 50 2005-02-11 17:11 tty50
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 51 2005-02-11 17:11 tty51
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 52 2005-02-11 17:11 tty52
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 53 2005-02-11 17:11 tty53
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 54 2005-02-11 17:11 tty54
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 55 2005-02-11 17:11 tty55
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 56 2005-02-11 17:11 tty56
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 57 2005-02-11 17:11 tty57
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 58 2005-02-11 17:11 tty58
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 59 2005-02-11 17:11 tty59
crw------- 1 root root 4, 6 2005-02-11 17:12 tty6
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 60 2005-02-11 17:11 tty60
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 61 2005-02-11 17:11 tty61
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 62 2005-02-11 17:11 tty62
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 63 2005-02-11 17:11 tty63
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 7 2005-02-11 17:11 tty7
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 8 2005-02-11 17:11 tty8
crw-rw---- 1 root root 4, 9 2005-02-11 17:11 tty9
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 64 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS0
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 65 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS1
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 74 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS10
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 75 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS11
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 76 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS12
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 77 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS13
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 78 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS14
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 79 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS15
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 80 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS16
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 81 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS17
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 82 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS18
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 83 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS19
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 66 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS2
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 84 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS20
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 85 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS21
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 86 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS22
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 87 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS23
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 88 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS24
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 89 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS25
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 90 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS26
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 91 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS27
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 92 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS28
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 93 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS29
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 67 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS3
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 94 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS30
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 95 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS31
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 96 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS32
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 97 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS33
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 98 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS34
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 99 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS35
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 100 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS36
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 101 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS37
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 102 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS38
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 103 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS39
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 68 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS4
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 104 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS40
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 105 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS41
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 106 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS42
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 107 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS43
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 108 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS44
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 109 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS45
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 110 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS46
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 111 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS47
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 112 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS48
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 113 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS49
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 69 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS5
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 114 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS50
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 115 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS51
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 116 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS52
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 117 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS53
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 70 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS6
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 71 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS7
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 72 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS8
crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 4, 73 2005-02-11 17:11 ttyS9
cr--r--r-- 1 root root 1, 9 2005-02-11 17:12 urandom
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 0 2005-02-11 17:11 vcs
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 1 2005-02-11 17:12 vcs1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 2 2005-02-11 17:12 vcs2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 3 2005-02-11 17:12 vcs3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 4 2005-02-11 17:12 vcs4
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 5 2005-02-11 17:12 vcs5
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 6 2005-02-11 17:12 vcs6
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 7 2005-02-11 17:26 vcs7
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 128 2005-02-11 17:11 vcsa
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 129 2005-02-11 17:12 vcsa1
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 130 2005-02-11 17:12 vcsa2
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 131 2005-02-11 17:12 vcsa3
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 132 2005-02-11 17:12 vcsa4
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 133 2005-02-11 17:12 vcsa5
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 134 2005-02-11 17:12 vcsa6
crw-rw---- 1 root root 7, 135 2005-02-11 17:26 vcsa7
prw-r----- 1 root adm 0 2005-02-11 17:12 xconsole
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 5 2005-02-11 17:11 zero

The /dev/sda is my hard disk... so what else could be my cdrom drive?
Cdrom is attached to the ide..

lspci gives the following.. Any suggestion?
____3v1l:/home/alg0# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT83
77 [KT400/KT600 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 80)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT823
7 PCI Bridge
0000:00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconduct
or Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0d.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:00:0f.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
0000:00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
0000:00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
0000:00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
0000:00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South]
0000:00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller(rev 60)
0000:00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 7
0000:00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
Message from tony_chalk at 15:30:51
____ RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)

Make sure the motherboard BIOS is enabled for the IDE channel where the drive is connected.

Look at the ouput of the dmesg command
dmesg | grep CD (Use Capital CD)

This returns nothing to the pcs with cdrom working properly

linux is case sensitive. Did you use a capital CD

From my PC:
Look at the complete output of the dmesg command. Do you see any messages on the drive?

Thx... for your answer .... I have used all the four different combinations
grep CD
grep Cd
grep cd
grep cD

any ideas???

I think I have the same problem. Everything worked fine in MDK 9.2. Upgraded to 10.0 and now CD won"t mount properly. dmesg on my machine.

[david@davids david]$ dmesg | grep CD
hdc: PLEXTOR DVDR PX-712A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW CD-MRW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20

And here is my fstab.

[david@davids david]$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0

And here is what I get when I run mount. As you might quess from my login, I am just a putzer that likes to try different things and sometimes I get lost.

[david@davids david]$ mount
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /mnt/floppy type supermount (rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 on /mnt/win_c type ntfs (ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0)
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/part1 on /mnt/win_c2 type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6 on /mnt/win_d type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8 on /usr type ext3 (rw)

I also have the following file in /etc, and I am not quite sure just what it does.

[david@davids david]$ cat /etc/fstab.mdkgiorig
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda9 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0

I have done due diligence in searching forums for info, and think I am kinda stuck. Hope this is proper place for this.

If it helps...

3 hdd, 1 floppy, and 1 Plextor dvd/cd/rw
hda is 3 partitions, 1 vfat, 1 Linux(MDK10.0), and 1 NTFS
hdb is Ignalum Linux