Im running Slackware 9.1 on a toshiba laptop 1955-S805, it has a combo dvd/cd-r drive. I just updated to the 2.6.5 kernel yesterday, and ever since then I cannot mount any data cds, or listen to audio(not trying to mount audio) cds. I put a data cd in the drive, and try mounting with this:

root@itap:~# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
or
root@itap:~# mount -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /mnt/cdrom is not a block device
also
root@itap:~# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
/dev/hdc: Invalid argument
mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock

Ive read that scsi emulation is no longer needed with the 2.6 kernels, I noticed that in my lilo.conf i still have append="hdc=ide-scsi", Ive tried commenting this out, and rebooting, but no difference. on doing a:
lroot@itap:~# ls -l /dev/cdrom
i get:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 15 17:42 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sr0

any suggestions?

thanks in advance,
Brad

Check what the CD device is actually called. Type dmesg | grep CD to see what's up. If it still is treated as an ide-scsi device it is probably /dev/scd0.

/dev/cdrom is a symlink to the actual device, so if it is called /dev/scd0 you will have to remove the link and recreate it, pointing to scd0 (ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom) or whatever the actual device is. Then you should be able to mount it using mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom.

If you do have it configured as an ide-scsi device you need to load the ide-scsi module in order to access it - modprobe ide-scsi.


Håkan

heres what I found:

ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: DVD-ROM SD-R6012 Rev: 1031
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0, type 5

so which device should be linked to /dev/cdrom? I tried linking it to /dev/hdc and it did not work. Before I noticed that when i tried modprobe ide-scsi it would give me "FATAL: Module ide_scsi already in kernel." Which seems contradictory to dmesg shows.

You are using SCSI emulation, so load the ide-scsi module and symlink /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0.

Håkan

i really appreciate you help, and maybe because of my ignorance i might have screwed something up here, i 1st had tried to link /dev/cdrom to /dev/scd0, and when i unlinked, now i have no scd0 device same with hdc and cdrom...AAHH i goofed...i reviewed the <kernel-source>/Documentation/devices.txt and recreated the /dev/scd0 by using

mknod /dev/scd0 b 11 0
also
mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0

then symlinked,

ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom

so

ls -al /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Apr 23 14:50 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0

but

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

if i
unlink /dev/cdrom

then

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

then try to mount

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
/dev/cdrom: Invalid argument
mount: /dev/cdrom: can't read superblock

so either way i get errors, and both are different, should /dev/cdrom be a block device that i have to create, or will it be just a link, like now how it is?

thanks again

hi

i get this message when trying to read from my cd-rom
Could not mount CD-RW/DVD-ROM Drive:
Unable to mount the selected volume.:
/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: /dev/hdc: can't read superblock

does anyone know what the problem is?
how can i fix it?
please help me on this issue.

thanks,

eric