cdrom drive not working

[Roy Nickelson]

thanks, It worked. I wonder why that link wasn't there originally.
Roy
On Tue, 
8 Jun 2004, Luke Davis wrote:

 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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