[plug] Question about CDROM

Subba Rao subb3 at ibm.net
Sat Aug 21 22:31:00 WST 1999


Thank you Andrew. Simple advice and effective. I was thinking there was some hardware conflicts
with the video card. The cable did get loose. It is working now.

Thank you very much. :-)

Subba Rao
subb3 at ibm.net
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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 22:06:12 +0800, Andrew wrote:

>Hi Subba,
>	open the box back up plug the cable in properly that you half knocked out and try again :)
>
>	cya,	Andrew...
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Subba Rao [SMTP:subb3 at ibm.net]
>Sent:	Saturday, 21 August 1999 21:53
>To:	Perth Linux Users Group
>Subject:	[plug] Question about CDROM
>
>I had my CDROM working until 8 AM this morning. All I did was changed my video card and closed the
>box. At bootup time, the CDROM drive did not get mounted.
>
>I tried to manually mount the drive,
>
>$ mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
>mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
>       (maybe 'insmod driver'?)
>
>That is the message, I get now.
>
>Then, I inserted a audio CD, and xmcd does not play it. I am using OSS driver ( and did turn on the driver ).
>
>The "eject" command says
>eject: open failed for '/dev/hdc': No such device
>
>Did not know changing video card was so dangerous ;-)
>
>I would appreciate any help. The video card a XFConfig work great, but now I want my CD to work.
>
>Thank you for any help.
>
>Subba Rao
>subb3 at ibm.net
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