[NTLUG:Discuss] mounting my cdrom revisited

[Fred James]

And I had just read about that ... scd0 in this case ... in conjunction 
with the cdrom having to be treated like a SCSI device for CD-RW to 
work.  Sorry, my bad.

Ken Frazer wrote:

> Fred,
> /dev/hdb means second IDE device on the first IDE controller, which 
> may well be a CDROM.  Do an ls -l on /dev/cdrom and, if it is an ATAPI 
> cdrom, you will see that it is soft linked to an hd? device of some sort.
>
> At 07:10 PM 10/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
>> /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>> is how the line reads in my /etc/fstab (RH 7.2).  Since this stuff 
>> varies from system to system, check your man(ual) pages for "fstab" - 
>> but my first thought would be that your fstab cdrom entry is 
>> incorrect, starting with the device (first entry) that your are 
>> trying to mount. "/dev/hdb" means second hard disk in everything I've 
>> read.
>>
>> falconjetflyer at netscape.net wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>   The following command is from my /etc/fstab
>>>
>>>   /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto 
>>> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
>>>
>>>   Does it mean that my cdrom is automounted?
>>>   If so, should i see a cdrom's contents in nautilus?
>>>   I don't.
>>>   And it won't allow me to mount manually.
>>>   I am using mandrake 8.1
>>>   My floppy has basically the same command and it mounts OK.
>>>   ? ? ? ? ?   Garion
>>>
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