From ryandav@u.washington.edu Fri Feb 4 16:19:45 2000 Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA11624 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:19:41 -0800 Received: from dante05.u.washington.edu (ryandav@dante05.u.washington.edu [140.142.15.7]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW00.01) with ESMTP id QAA22266 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:19:40 -0800 Received: from localhost (ryandav@localhost) by dante05.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id QAA92872 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:19:39 -0800 Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 16:19:39 -0800 (PST) From: "R. David Whitlock" To: linux@u.washington.edu Subject: block devices? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII After installing fresh to someone's machine, no problems with using the cdrom or anything, I get the following: [root@cartman ~]# mount /dev/cdrom mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device dmesg reports every time I try to mount that the driver is not present. [root@cartman ~]# lsmod Module Size Used by ne2k-pci 4256 1 (autoclean) 8390 6436 0 (autoclean) [ne2k-pci] nls_iso8859-1 2052 1 (autoclean) nls_cp437 3580 1 (autoclean) vfat 11004 1 (autoclean) fat 33120 1 (autoclean) [vfat] dmesg reports the following in bootup: hda: IBM-DPTA-371360, ATA DISK drive hdc: CR-4804TE, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: IBM-DPTA-371360, 13042MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=1662/255/63 explicitly stating that the hdc has been located, and I thought, added. Anyone got any ideas why /dev/hdc appears to not be a block device (or why the heck that error comes up) ? Later, David .