Hi,
Assuming its not a hardware fault, I could only guess that you either have the wrong filesystem type in /etc/fstab or the symbolic link to /dev/cdrom is broken .
If its an IDE drive without scsi emulation then it would be one of :
/dev/hdb
/dev/hdc
/dev/hdd
If it were scsi or using ide-scsi emulation it should be
/dev/scd0
If you are mounting '/dev/cdrom' that needs to point at the correct one of the above 'real' devices as /dev/cdrom is just a symlink. You should see this relationship if you do :
ls -l /dev/cdrom
If there is no 'pointer' then you need to recreate that (as root) :
# ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
(example - change /dev/hdd to your correct device)
Also, make sure you have the correct info in your /etc/fstab. Something like :
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto 0 0
You can change the 'iso9660' to the word 'auto' to allow for mounting CDRW disks which are formatted with udf rather than iso9660 -'auto' should auto-detect the filesystem format .
If in doubt you can always mount by hand :
mount /dev/cdrom -t auto -o ro /mnt/cdrom
or
mount /dev/hdd -t auto -o ro /mnt/cdrom
etc. (where /mnt/cdrom is an example of where you want the mounted filesystem to appear. Must be an existing (empty) directory)
Then 'ls -l /mnt/cdrom' and the files should be seen. ('umount /dev/cdrom' to unmount).
The only other possibility is that you have the cdrom included in an automount map. In such a case you'd find it mounted on demand under '/misc/cdrom' .
Hope this helps
