Arthur S. Alexion on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 10:30:48 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting


On Monday 10 June 2002 09:40 am, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 09:35:06AM -0400, Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> > While I was able to install from the cd, I am now having trouble
> > mounting it.  I keep getting the message "/dev/cdrom is not a valid
> > block device".
>
> /dev/cdrom is almost definitely a sym link pointing to the wrong
> device.
>
> Where does dmesg tell you your cdrom was detected?

I'm really new at this.  I can't recognize a reference in dmesg.  Here 
is the output:

Linux version 2.4.7-10 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc 
version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6 
17:21:28 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000003000000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fffc0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 12288
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 8192 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/hde3
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 74.540 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 148.68 BogoMIPS
Memory: 45436k/49152k available (1280k kernel code, 3068k reserved, 90k 
data, 216k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
Intel old style machine check architecture supported.
Intel old style machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:     After generic, caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU:             Common caps: 000001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 04
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
Checking for popad bug... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: none
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd121, last bus=0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: checksum for device 1 is not valid (0x2c)
isapnp: Card 'U.S. Robotics Inc., Sportster Winmodem 28.8'
isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.1 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
pty: 512 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT 
SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
block: queued sectors max/low 30093kB/10031kB, 128 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 38
PIIX: chipset revision 2
PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PIIX: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
PIIX: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX: chipset revision 2
PIIX: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff90-0xff97, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff98-0xff9f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
PDC20267: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
PDC20267: chipset revision 2
PDC20267: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PDC20267: (U)DMA Burst Bit ENABLED Primary PCI Mode Secondary PCI Mode.
    ide2: BM-DMA at 0xfe80-0xfe87, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
    ide3: BM-DMA at 0xfe88-0xfe8f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
hda: WDC AC31000H, ATA DISK drive
hdb: LTN526D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hde: Maxtor 5T040H4, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
ide2 at 0xfff0-0xfff7,0xffe6 on irq 10
hda: 2116800 sectors (1084 MB) w/128KiB Cache, CHS=525/64/63, DMA
hde: 80043264 sectors (40982 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=79408/16/63, 
UDMA(100)
ide-floppy driver 0.97
hdc: 98304kB, 196608 blocks, 512 sector size
hdc: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =  5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
Partition check:
 hda:hda: dma_intr: status=0x65 { DriveReady DeviceFault CorrectedError 
Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
 hda1
 hdc: hdc4
 hde: [PTBL] [4982/255/63] hde1 hde2 < hde5 > hde3 hde4
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
ide-floppy driver 0.97
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 318k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed
Adding Swap: 96380k swap-space (priority -1)
ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =  5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
 hdc: hdc4
ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =  5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
 hdc: hdc4
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide2(33,3), internal journal
ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =  5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
 hdc: hdc4
ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =  5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
 hdc: hdc4
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP]
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 820C
ip_conntrack (384 buckets, 3072 max)
ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xff40, IRQ 9, 00:20:18:2F:E7:8E.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP]
parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(98)
parport0: Printer, HEWLETT-PACKARD DESKJET 820C
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
ide-floppy driver 0.97
hdb: driver not present
ide-floppy: hdc: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =  5, asc = 24, ascq =  0
 hdc: hdc4
ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xff40, IRQ 9, 00:20:18:2F:E7:8E.
ne2k-pci.c:v1.02 10/19/2000 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html
eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xff40, IRQ 9, 00:20:18:2F:E7:8E.
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 
1993-1996
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
sb: No ISAPnP cards found, trying standard ones...
SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen, Rob Hooft 
1993-1996
ide-floppy driver 0.97
hdb: driver not present
ide-floppy driver 0.97
hdb: driver not present
ide-floppy driver 0.97
hdb: driver not present

>
> What's /dev/cdrom pointing at?

There is no /dev/cdrom.  the closest block devices in /dev/ are cdu31a, 
cdu535, cm205cd & cm206cd.  There are 1500+ entries in /dev/.  Is there 
something else I should scan for?

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