[Preston] I've lost my CD Drives !?!

[dazzle68]

You need to mount the CD rom (if you dont have automounter in /etc/fstab).

"mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdreader" - if your CD rom is on secondary IDE 
channel, as master.

"mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0" - if your CD rom is a SCSI setup. It may actually 
be IDE but Linux can emulate SCSCI interface for IDE drives - useful for CD 
recording apps!!!

Then, issue comman "ls /mnt/cdreader" to get the contents of the CD. You cant 
just "/mnt/cdreader" - that means you are trying to execute the directory (in 
Linux speak) - you cant execute a directory in any O/S !!!


On Monday 06 January 2003 10:00 pm, Databug wrote:
> Hello
> I don't know how this happened but today i wanted to install something
> from my mandrake disks but Mandrake couldn't find them. If I try to access
> the drives from the Konsole I get this:
>
> [root@localhost databug]# /dev/hdc
> bash: /dev/hdc: Permission denied
> [root@localhost databug]#
>
> I get this for both drives. If I try to access either drives using its
> icon I get this:
>
> Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdreader. You do not have access rights to this
> location.
>
> I get the same even if I'm root
>
> If I try to access the /mnt/ entry via the shell I get this:
>
> [root@localhost databug]# /mnt/cdreader
> bash: /mnt/cdreader: is a directory
>
> I'm not sure what all this means but Linux is pretty much unusable until I
> fix it. Can anyone please help.