Re: CD-ROM Not Working

"JohnH" <pctech@xxxxxxx> · Sun, 17 Dec 2006 22:00:42 -0600

Check all as follows:

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Steven J. Yellin" <yellin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Not Working

   Please give more information.  What instruction, if any, did you give
to mount it?

cd /mnt/cdrom

   Did the mount succeed without complaint?

Yes

 Where did you then look for data?

ls and dir

   Does fstab have a line in it refering to a cdrom, such as  /dev/cdrom 

/mnt/cdrom    udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

Yes,          /dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom    udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 

0

If so, to what does your /dev/cdrom symbolically link?  For example,
ls -l /dev/cdrom might show a line including "/dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdd",

lrwxrwxrwx     1root     root     8 Dec 16 15:04     /dev/cdrom -> /dev /hdc

in which case you might be able to see that it really is a CD by
"cat /proc/ide/hdd/media" showing "cdrom".

cat /proc/ide/hdc/media

cdrom

I am not going to concern myself with the floppy just yet. I figure I can 

fix that with the same DISTRUCTIONS as for the CD.

Steven Yellin

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, JohnH wrote:

I had to reinstall RH9 because of my own stupidity (don't ask).
Now I can't see anything on my CD's.

I can put in an audio CD and it will play but I can't see data on the RH9 

install CD's.

What am I doing wrong?

JohnH
pctech@xxxxxxx

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