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Subject: Re: IDE CDROM Drives
From: Rick Forrester <rickf@crow.jpl.nasa.gov>
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 05:56:36 -0700
bob.brown@opus.co.nz said:
> I put an extra CDROM drive in my Linux box last night - I have two
> CDROM drives on my secondary IDE chain, one a master, one a slave.
> Linux can't find either of them (well, I'm not sure how to find out if
> it has found them). When I try to mount my CD drive as I did when I
> had just one drive, it tells me : "mount: the kernel does not
> recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device".
> What tools do I have at my disposal to solve this issue?
There are two tools included in 6.0 that should help you here. The
first is "dmesg", the second is "hwdiag".
1. "dmesg | less" will let you review the startup messages, which
includes
a detailed list of the devices/hardware your system recognized, and
where it was located. You should see descriptions of hda, hdb, hdc,
and hdd on the startup screen.
2. "hwdiag" will scrounge through your system & give detailed descriptions
of what it finds. You can print these out & rummage through
them at you leisure.
Let us know what you get & we can go from there. Might also be helpful
if you showed us the contents of /etc/fstab & exactly what mount cmd
you're trying to use.
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