> Kevin Brown wrote:
>
>> Frank Mandato wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>   My cdrom will not read any meadia at all, either burned cd's or
>>> bought ones. Here is my fstab file, I do get a message that a final
>>> newline is missing.
>>>
>>>   warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
>>>
>>> LABEL=/                  /                         ext3
>>> defaults        1 1
>>> LABEL=/boot           /boot                  ext3    defaults        1
>>> 2
>>> none                           /dev/pts             devpts
>>> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>>> LABEL=/home          /home               ext3    defaults        1 2
>>> none                           /proc                 proc
>>> defaults        0 0
>>> none                           /dev/shm           tmpfs
>>> defaults        0 0
>>> LABEL=/tmp            /tmp                   ext3   defaults        1 2
>>> LABEL=/var             /var                    ext3   defaults
>>> 1 2
>>> LABEL=/www         /www                ext3   defaults        1 2
>>> /dev/hda5                  swap                   swap
>>> defaults        0 0
>>> /dev/cdrom                /mnt/cdrom         iso9660
>>> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>> /dev/fd0                     /mnt/floppy        auto
>>> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>>> /dev/fd1                     /mnt/floppy1      auto
>>> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>>> /dev/sda1                   /mnt/camera       auto
>>> defaults,user,noauto 0 0
>>>
>>>   The cdrom is detected in the bios, so it is recognized at least
>>> there. Any ideas as to what may be wrong with, or is there some other
>>> file that I may have to edit. I am running RH9.
>>>
>>>  I'd hate to go out and buy a new one if I don't need to, this cdrom
>>> is only about 3 years old, well, maybe 4.
>>>
>>>  I did check the cabling, and it is ok, it did work as of a few month
>>> ago, but I rarely use it, so I am at a loss as to what happened.
>>
>>
>> What device does /dev/cdrom link to:
>>
>> ls -l /dev/cdrom
>>
>> What configuration is the CDROM in (Primary Master, Primary Slave,
>> Secondary Master, Secondary Slave)?
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> here is what my cdrom is linked to. It is hdb, the primary slave.
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Jul  6  2003 /dev/cdrom ->
> /dev/hdb
>
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Check your boot log to see what device it detected it as hdb might be wrong.

Also try mounting it manually like this:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom

JD

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