[wplug] cdrom not valid block device

Bryce Lynch bryce at telerama.lm.com
Sun Jul 13 15:46:31 EDT 2003


On 12 Jul 2003, J Aaron Farr wrote:

> # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
> mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device

Hmmm....

> append="hdc=ide-scsi"

When you boot with this kernel argument, try the following command to
mount the drive:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom

The IDE-SCSI drivers make IDE devices appear to be SCSI devices, meaning
that they need to be referenced with different device files under /dev

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