Well, just see if you can mail me the messages you get from the kernel while booting. Also mail me /etc/fstab. Actually, what I want is some evidence about the CDROM drivers in kernel mode.
I haven't tried RH 7.2, so I don't know what is wrong right now. Let me go through the messages, then probably, I'll be able to help you.
By that time, I'll also try to get my hands on RH 7.2.
Actually, it seems that your CDRW is getting detected properly as a CDROM. This is evident from your GNOME messages. But I don't understand why it is not letting you mount it.
Just try to mount it manually by specifying all the parameters at command line like this :
#mount -t iso9660 -loop /mnt/cdrom /dev/hdc
Go through the man page of mount for more details, I don't remember the command right now...
A friend of mine has exactly the same drive, but he never faced any such problems....
Let's see what can be done...
Kunal
----- Original Message ----- From: Anand Iyer akiyer@vsnl.com To: linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2002 5:47 PM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] CD ROm detection problem in RH 7.2
Hi Kunal and others trying to help, I removed the append="hdc=ide-scsi" from lilo.conf. ran lilo.
booted the machine. And inserted a PCQ CD inside the drive and tried mount when it did not
automount.
Then removed the fstab line for CDROM.
Rebooted the machine. Still the same results. I am not worried about CD recording at this moment. Machine history: Loaded PCQ 7.1 in July and running smoothly since then. CDRecord and ordinary CD usage with the lilo line "append...." was there.
Upgraded recently to RH 7.2 using Seascope CD's.
The CD's are with me and the kernel being used is 2.4.7-10 .
Initially I had a installation problem and I got another set of CD's
with me now.
The install has worked smoothly so far. But the CD ROM is not being read.
I went to hardware browser in Gnome after logging in as root Window shows on left CDROM Devices
Right Hand top side shows SAMSUND CD-R/RW DRIVE SW-208F
Bottom right hand side window shows manufacturer: unknown driver: ignore Device: /dev/hdc
So I am a bit confused. I believe his means that the CDROM is detected in /dev/hdc and ths SAMSUNG ... that is seen means that the CDROM drive is being properly detected by
some software component
however the bottom part of the window is worrying and shows that the
CDROm detection has some problems.
is this Kernel Related?
Please note that the same system has caldera loaded in another
partition with 2.4.2 and the system is running smoothly.
Anand
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