[Sheflug] CD-ROM woes...

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi,
	I have just been in need of using a CD-Rom, and found that I had
forgotten to compile the kernel with support for it... oh well, a chance
to install 2.2.19, I said, got the file and compiled. To my amazement, I
keep on getting strange errors. Here's a sample session
# mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /mnt
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
cdrom: open failed.
mount: No medium found
 
/dev/hdc is correct, as it can be seen from dmesg:
hdc: CRD-8480M, ATAPI CDROM drive
and the CDROM driver is loaded as well:
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11

	The list of loaded modules is:
# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ide-cd                 24144   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  27360   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
isofs                  17376   0  (autoclean) (unused)
lp                      5328   0  (autoclean)
rtl8139                11888   1  (autoclean)
esssolo1               22000   0  (autoclean)
soundcore               2576   4  (autoclean) [esssolo1]
parport_pc              7600   1
parport                 7488   1  [lp parport_pc]

which looks correct to me. Can anyone suggest anything/anywhere to look
for casualties?

	Thanks
	José
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
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