Michael Jinks wrote:
>
> This is a shot in the dark, but I figure it's worth a try -- over the
> weekend, my RH5 system stopped recognizing its cd-rom:
>
> [root@fred /root]# mount /mnt/cdrom
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
>
> I've checked my physical connections, they're fine. The cd-rom is
> getting power and there's a disk in the drive. I also haven't switched
> kernels. This machine's BIOS never did recognize the cd-rom explicitly,
> so looking there is no good.
>
> /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/hdb, just as it's always been.
>
> Any hints?
>
Have you shuffled your hardware? I had exactly the same problem with a
CDROM as the master and a 1GB disk as the slave; I swapped them over,
changed the names, and it worked perfectly.
Dave.
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