Re: CD-ROM Not Working

Check all as follows:


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven J. Yellin" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <[email protected]>
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
>> [email protected]

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