[solved]Can't mount cdrom

donjames · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject: [solved]Can't mount cdrom

Hi,

I can't seem to mount the cdrom on my Gentoo machine with SCSI hard drives.

The cdrom drive has an IDE interface.

I used to be able to mount the cdrom drive by:

Dan · Veteran Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Posts: 1302

what do you have in /etc/fstab for them?

example for 2 cdroms...
you could use something like
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 auto noauto,ro,user 0 0
or
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto user,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto user,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

or even all 4 together would not cause a problem
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donjames · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 10:56 pm Post subject: cdrom won't mount

Hi,

Okay.

On my gentoo computers with IDE hard drives, the cdrom will mount.

On my one gentoo computer with a SCSI hard and an IDE cdrom drive, the cdrom will not mount.

The line in fstab is:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:28 pm Post subject:

donjames,

You need IDE CDROM support for IDE CDROMS, or you need to use SCSI emualtion, which has been depreciated since kernel 2.6.0

You will also need to configure the IDE section of the kernel to support your hardware.
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donjames · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 11:38 pm Post subject:

Hello,

The IDE section of my kernel IS configured to support CDROMS.

I just checked it.

thanks,

Don James

donjames · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:46 pm Post subject: kernel configuration

Hi,

Well, I screwed up. I had cdrom support turned on in the kernel, but I didn't have IDE support turned on for the chipset on my motherboard.

Duh!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for reminding me.

Sincerely,

Don James
Henderson, Texas USA