[SWLUG] unable to mount external pci drive

[Stephen Constantinou]

Steve Hill wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2007, STEPHEN CONSTANTINOU wrote:
> 
>> During boot up I do see "Starting pcmcia OK".
>>
>> I have an external cdrom that connects to the laptop in this manner. 
>> Before I connect this device I have the following entries
> 
> First of all, it's important to know if it's a PCMCIA device or a 
> CardBus device - whilest they plug into the same slot, they are handled 
> quite differently.  AFAIK CardBus devices don't require any "card 
> services" software and just appear to be hot-pluggable PCI devices.
> 
>> After I insert the cdrom I hear a little click from the external cdrom 
>> and the cd inside does rotate, but no new icon appears in devices for 
>> me to double click.
>>
>> However, after insertion fdisk reveals the same information.  I am not 
>> sure what to do now.
> 
> Fdisk isn't going to know much about CD ROM devices since CDs have no 
> partition table.
> 
> Your distribution may try to automount the device - in which case, try 
> typing "mount" and see if it shows up.  Otherwise you will have to mount 
> it yourself with something like "mount /dev/hdc /mnt".
> 
> Another good place to look is the kernel message buffer - type "dmesg" 
> and look for any relevant messages.
> 

Dear Steve, pbhj, Neil and all

Thanks for the responses.

dmesg revealed that the device is /dev/hde
   "hde: ATAPI 10X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache"
so I made a new folder called /mnt/extcdrom.  Then I managed to mount it 
as root with
   "mount /dev/hde /mnt/extcdrom"
Problem solved and thanks to everyone

Stephen