Re: CD stops working

[Jordan Bettis <jordanb@hafd.org>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 05:03:05PM -0500, Erich Schroeder wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Steven Pritchard wrote:
> 
> > Erich Schroeder said:
> > > This is an IDE CD-RW drive. Running the
> > > command "cdrecord -scanbus" still correctly finds the drive, although it
> > > is finding it through the scsi drivers.
> > 
> > "rmmod ide-scsi" will probably magically fix it.
> 
> It magically changes things, but not fixing them yet. Now I get:
> 
> [root@vrmuseum ]# mount /mnt/cdrom
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

/dev/cdrom is a symlink to the real device. If you're using IDE, it'll be
/dev/hd[abcd] where the last letter is dependent on where it is on your IDE
chain, for instance, my cdrom is in the secondary slave position, so if I do
ls -l /dev/cdrom, I get:
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Jun 17 21:06 /dev/cdrom -> hdd

Try deleting your /dev/cdrom symlink and doing:
ln -s /dev/hd[abcd] /dev/cdrom

where [abcd] is the approprate letter for your cdrom..

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