topic Re: Unable to mount cdrom in Operating System - Linux

Unable to mount cdrom

Kenneth Leung_2 — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 04:38:41 GMT

I am running the Redhat AS on the IBM Blade server. My cdrom didn't automount when cdrom was inserted. I tried to mount the cd with "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", but it just reported "mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist". From "lsmod", the "ide-cd" was loaded. Please advise if I missed anything. Please help. Thanks a lot.

Re: Unable to mount cdrom

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 04:57:21 GMT

what is ll /dev/cdrom saying. Is there a link to /dev/h**.

Can you able to see cd rom disk details in fdisk or du commands.

It is a problem wit cdrom not with mount.

Re: Unable to mount cdrom

Kenneth Leung_2 — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 05:07:07 GMT

Hi Hi,

The file /dev/cdrom was missing in /etc. No info on cdrom was found using "sfdisk -s", "grep hd dmesg". Rebooting the server didn't do any help.......Is there any command that will re-scan all devices (like ioscan in HP-UX)??? I am thinking if the IBM engineer has missed out anything during server installation.......

Re: Unable to mount cdrom

Muthukumar_5 — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 05:19:28 GMT

you came to dmesg command. Change the check as dmesg | grep cdrom

Re: Unable to mount cdrom

Kenneth Leung_2 — Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:34:11 GMT

No "cdrom" was grep from dmesg......Is it a feature of the IBM blade server?

Re: Unable to mount cdrom

Muthukumar_5 — Thu, 15 Jul 2004 03:46:01 GMT

Redhat AS will tell if u have cdrom on the server using dmesg command. It will give the details of cdrom ) number of tracks too.