F-18 CDROM problem -

Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sat Mar 16 11:35:59 UTC 2013


On 16/03/13 05:02, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> Another indication, I get:
>> >
>> >[root at box10 bobg]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sg1  /mnt/cdrom
>> >mount:  /dev/sg1 is not a block device
>> >
>> >I suppose the drive could be defective but I would like to know I'm doing everything right before I pursue that path.
>> >
> What does "ls -l /dev | grep cdrom" show?  On all of my the cdrom is /dev/sr0 which is a block device.
>
>
> -- From now on, at least during winter time, Im going to blame all 
> spelling an grammar erros on the cat sitting on my chest every time I 
> sit down at the computer....
> -- 


[root at box10 bobg]# ls -l /dev | grep cdrom
crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom    21,   1 Mar 16  2013 sg1
brw-rw----. 1 root cdrom    11,   0 Mar 16  2013 sr0

[root at box10 bobg]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sg0  /mnt/cdrom
mount:  /dev/sg0 is not a block device

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