"cannot stat /dev/cdrom" error message and problem

[Anton Markov]

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Hi,

/dev/cdrom is usually a symlink pointing to the real cdrom drive device
(/dev/hdc, /dev/scd0, /dev/sr0, etc) could you please provide us the
output of "ls -l /dev/cdrom*" so we can see what these devices point to.

Also, the entry for your cdrom1 device is commanded out ("#") I hope
that's intentional, otherwise that may be why cdrom1 is not working.

Also, are you know if you are using scsi emulation for any of the drives?

Mel Seder wrote:
> The following is the contents of my /etc/fstab.
> 
> When my computer boots I get the message "cannot stat /dev/cdrom" and
> the cdrom is not useable.  My cdrom1 has been broken for sometime now.
> I have removed some spaces because of wordwrap in yahoo mail.
> 
> 
> 
> LABEL=/ /      ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot1   /boot   ext3    defaults        1 2
> none  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> none  /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none  /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/hdb3 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> # /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1         udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0  /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> /dev/hda5 /mnt/data               vfat
> auto,user,rw,gid=vfatusers,umask=002 0 0
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/flash              auto    noauto,owner,kudzu,rw 0 0 5
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom            udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> 
> It was working fine yesterday.  Can anyone tell me what might be wrong?

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