Re: [PLUG] cdrom mounting

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

On Monday 10 June 2002 10:54 pm, Will Dyson wrote:
> 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.

RedHat vendor compiled kernel
>
> 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).

Wait, Will.  I'm new at this.  What do you mean do a modprobe?

>
> 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).

what is devfs?  If it solves my problem, how do I use it?

Thanks for the help and patience.

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