Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting

[Will Dyson <will_dyson@pobox.com>]

Arthur S. Alexion wrote:
> On Monday 10 June 2002 11:54 am, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote
> > Just so it's clear, this will definitely not work, as Arthur's
> > kernel has no driver for this CD-ROM.
>
>
> Yes, I tried that and it didn't work.

You just need the ide-cd driver.

I don't think you ever told us if you are running a vendor kernel or one 
you compiled yourself.

If it is a vendor kernel, it is probably present as a module already. Do a 
'modprobe ide-cd' and you should be good to go (perhaps adding the it to 
/etc/modules file so that it will be loaded on boot in the future).

Otherwise, you can find the option to compile ide-cd under the 
'ATA/IDE/MFM/RLL support' menu in the kernel config. Might as well just 
compile it in.

Problems like this are one of the reasons I prefer to use devfs on my box. 
It takes care of module auto-loading for you when you try to access the 
device file that the module provides (actually, the devfsd program does 
that, based on its config file that maps /dev/foo to kernel module foo).

--
Will Dyson
"Back off man, I'm a scientist!" -Dr. Peter Venkman


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