Unable to mount cdrom

[Kenneth Leung_2]

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.

[Muthukumar_5]

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.

[Kenneth Leung_2]

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.......

[Muthukumar_5]

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

[Kenneth Leung_2]

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

[Muthukumar_5]

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.