** Reply to message from zahidul islam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 14 Dec 2002 01:14:17 -0800 (PST)
> You are right, its connected as secondary slave with ide2. so it should be HDD. > i wrote ide1 by mistake. Now i have tried all the possible commands that i know > including yours so far, but the same messege appears, ie ITS NOT A VALID BLOCK > DEVICE. > PLS HEEEELP.................................. > Zafur > Redhat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at > 10:49:38PM -0800, zahidul islam wrote: > > > > I am a new user of LINUX and I am having a problem with mounting my CDROM in >redhat 7.2. the cdrom is connected as slave with ide1 > [snip] > > > > How can I use my cdrom ? (My cdrom is creative 52x, internal, IDE, and connected >as secondary slave.) > > You're saying two different things here. If the cdrom is connected as the > slave device on ide1, it's /dev/hdb. If it's the "secondary slave", that > infers it's the slave on ide2, which would be /dev/hdd. > > Try mounting it as /dev/hdb. Guys - you cannot mount a drive, you can only mount a partition. So try: /dev/hdb1 etc. jb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
