[NTLUG:Discuss] mounting my cdrom revisited

Ken Frazer frazer at acm.org
Sat Oct 5 19:40:10 CDT 2002


Fred,
/dev/hdb means second IDE device on the first IDE controller, which may 
well be a CDROM.  Do an ls -l on /dev/cdrom and, if it is an ATAPI cdrom, 
you will see that it is soft linked to an hd? device of some sort.

At 07:10 PM 10/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>is how the line reads in my /etc/fstab (RH 7.2).  Since this stuff varies 
>from system to system, check your man(ual) pages for "fstab" - but my 
>first thought would be that your fstab cdrom entry is incorrect, starting 
>with the device (first entry) that your are trying to mount. "/dev/hdb" 
>means second hard disk in everything I've read.
>
>falconjetflyer at netscape.net wrote:
>
>>
>>   The following command is from my /etc/fstab
>>
>>   /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto 
>> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
>>
>>   Does it mean that my cdrom is automounted?
>>   If so, should i see a cdrom's contents in nautilus?
>>   I don't.
>>   And it won't allow me to mount manually.
>>   I am using mandrake 8.1
>>   My floppy has basically the same command and it mounts OK.
>>   ? ? ? ? ?   Garion
>>
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