cdrom drive not working

[Luke Davis]

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom


On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Roy Nickelson wrote:

> 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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