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I'm trying to set up my system with linux and am having trouble getting
it to recognize my Sony 55e CD-ROM.  I'm kinda new to the PC scene,
but not the unix scene, so please bear with me.  My setup is as follows:

        486/66 dx2
        Adaptec 2940 SCSI2 drive
        500M Seagate (Linux disk)
        540M PCI IDE (DOS/Boot disk)
        Sony 55e PCI IDE CD-ROM drive

I've compiled the latest kernel from sunsite (1.1.81) along with the
adaptec 2940 support.  I've also followed the instructions in the
README.ide file and ran the MAKEDEV.ide script which creates the
hdc/d device files.

The problem is when I try to mount the cdrom with the /dev/hdc device,
it tells me that /dev/hdc is not a block device.  Doing a 'file /dev/hdc'
tells me that it is.  The mount command is:

        % mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /cdrom
and
        % mount -t iso9660 -o ro -o block=2048 /dev/hdc /cdrom

At boot time, nothing is mentioned about the hdc device but I get the
same error when it reads the fstab and tries to mount /cdrom.

Please let me know if more information is needed.  Any help would be
very much appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

Jeff

   I'm trying to set up my system with linux and am having trouble getting
   it to recognize my Sony 55e CD-ROM.  I'm kinda new to the PC scene,

   The problem is when I try to mount the cdrom with the /dev/hdc device,
   it tells me that /dev/hdc is not a block device.  Doing a 'file /dev/hdc'

That means that the kernel doesn't think that that device exists.
Did you try using `hdc=cdrom' on the lilo command line?
Some people report that things work better if they first boot mess-dos
(loading the cdrom driver), then warm-boot to linux.

sss