On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:23 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote: > Gene Poole wrote: > > This box was running very well on Red Hat Linux 9 when I did an upgrade to > > Fedora Core 3. The upgrade went perfectly until I started using the box > > for productive work and discovered that the cdrom is missing from > > /mnt/cdrom (where it was originally) and there is no reference to it in the > > /dev directory. I'm not screaming yet because I found it in the side pane > > of the root Nautilus GUI file manager window under KDE. > In FC3 the device /dev/cdrom seems to not be used in most cases. I find the device is the actual device (/dev/hdX) , and the mount point is no longer /mnt/XXX but is instead /media/cdrom or similar. Mount shows me this: /dev/hdd on /hdd on /media/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev, user=jeff) /dev/hdc on /media/cdrecorder type udf (ro,nosuid,nodev,user=jeff)f) Note that I have 2 drives, a CDROM at /dev/hdd and a DVD-RW at /dev/hdc. > I don't follow that last sentence. Found *what*, exactly? > > > I cannot find an example of the MAKEDEV command so I can get /mnt/cdrom > > back linked off of /dev/hdd. Does anyone know how to get the 'real' cdrom > > back? > > Firstly, was this an "upgrade in place" upgrade or an "install over and > restore data as necessary" upgrade? If you wiped the root partition, > you'll find that /media/cdrom has taken the place of /mnt/cdrom. > > Otherwise, it sounds like an udev problem. On FC3, udev should be > automatically creating /dev/hdd and the /dev/cdrom symlink to /dev/hdd. > > I take it that it's a normal ATAPI CD drive jumpered as slave and > sitting off your secondary IDE channel. > > Can you do a > ls -l /dev | grep hdd > > Does anything show up? If not, then can you take a look at > /var/log/dmesg : around halfway through that file there will be a whole > lot of data about your IDE connection, probably starting with a line > looking like this: > Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 > > Does that mention your CD drive? > > James. > > -- > James Wilkinson | TCP/IP evolved primarily by actually being _used_, > Exeter Devon UK | rather than being handed down from on high by a vendor > E-mail address: james | or a brontosaurus or any other saurian silliness. > @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- The megahal program, trained on my quote file. >
