[wplug] cdrom not valid block device

[Jonathan S. Billings]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 01:56:21PM -0400, J Aaron Farr wrote:
> 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
> 
> 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"
> 
> but that doesn't seem to help at all.
> 
> Any other thoughts?  Thanks!

If you are using 'hdc=ide-scsi' you have to mount the drive as a SCSI
drive, namely, /dev/scd0.  Check out the dmesg to see what the device
is recognised as during boot.

Jonathan Billings
SCS Facilities