cdrom drive not working

[Alex Snow]

I'm not sure if this has been asked already, but what shows up during boot
concerning you're ide devices? do dmesg|less and see what it says. for hdc
it'll show the atached ide-cdrom driver and the speed of the drive.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roy Nickelson" <roylee at visuallink.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: cdrom drive not working


> hi,
> then according to what you say my cdrom drive should be hdc.  it is the
> first device on the second controler.  the other device on that
> controler is the zip drive and it is hdd.  The hard drive is by itself.
>
> here is the fstab file
>
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults
> 1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults
> 1 2
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620
> 0 0
> none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults
> 0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults
> 0 0
> none                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults
> 0 0
>
>
> Roy
> On
> Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Luke Davis wrote:
>
>  /dev/cdrom, is usually a link to /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc..
>  What is the device ID of your hard drive, and how many hard drives do you
>  have?
>
>  The first IDE drive, on controller 0, (the primary), should be: /dev/hda.
>  The secondary should be: /dev/hdb.
>  The primary on the second controller (controller 1), should be: hdc.
>  and so on.
>
>  In fact, maybe you could send us a copy of /etc/fstab.
>
>  Luke
>
>
>  On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Roy Nickelson wrote:
>
>  > hi,
>  > how would I determine this, I thought it was cdrom that is all i have
>  > known it as under linux.
>  >
>  > RoyOn Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Luke Davis wrote:
>  >
>  > What is its device name?  That is: HDa, HDB, HDC, HDD, SDA, SDB, etc.?
>  >
>  >
>  > On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Roy Nickelson wrote:
>  >
>  > > Hi,
>  > > I am using fedora and my cd rom drive doesn't work. The drive works
in
>  > > windows and it worked in redhat9 and for the installation of fedora.
Iget
>  > > an error that says /dev/cdrom doesn't exist.
>  > > Do you have any sugestions on how to fix this?
>  > > Roy
>  > >
>  > >
>  > >
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