Can't see my drives

Hi,

My fstab file is set the same, I'm on RH7.2...

During boot, do you see the device recognized.

Anything showing related to /mnt/(dev) that seems funny if you enter the command dmesg, or tail /var/log/messages?

Maybe you could doublecheck permissions on the device
ls -l cdrom would show permissions, and should show /dev/cdrom linked to /dev/hd*, you can then check permissions on /dev/hd*

On my box brw-rw---- for /dev/hdc
lrwxrwxrwx for /dev/cdrom

later...

----Original Message Follows----

I'm having trouble 'seeing' the floppy drive or the CD-ROM.

I'm running RedHat 7.2, in all previous versions I had no trouble reading the
floppy or CD-ROM, for example just by going cd /mnt/cdrom ls

But now this doesn't work any more. Doesn't matter whether I'm 'me' or
su root,
cd /mnt/cdrom and cd /mnt/floppy apparently work, but
a following ls won't show the files.

mdir usually seems to work, though.

Nautilus and Konqueror show /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/floppy but not the
contents. Konq in superuser mode shows a 'CDRom device' but then
gives a message
"Could not mount device
The reported error was
mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device"

On the other hand, /mnt/dosC works fine.

/etc/fstab says:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

Any suggestions of what might be wrong?

cr

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Yes, there's some message about it (can't recall specifics without rebooting)

dmesg shows it as hdd (which I think is correct, it's the slave on the
secondary IDE controller). Nothing that looks suspicious though.

Same for mine from /dev/hda to /dev/hdd

Same for mine.

I rather suspect fstab may be wrong...

cr
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