[wplug] cdrom not valid block device

[Bob Schmertz]

J Aaron Farr incurred the wrath of Bob on Jul 12, by saying

>Hello.
>
>Just installed slackware 9.0 (very nice distro).  My CD-RW/DVD combo
>drive is not mounting.  I can see that the kernel recognizes it properly
>during boot up as /dev/hdc.  However:
>
># mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
>mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device

Showing us an ls -l of /dev/hdc might help.  Not that I'm promising a 
solution upon seeing it...

>
>I'm using LILO for my boot loader and I've tried booting with and
>without this line in my /etc/lilo.conf file:
>
>append="hdc=ide-scsi"
>

And, of course, you remembered to run lilo each time you changed the 
lilo.conf...

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Cheers,
Bob Schmertz