Having problems with CDRom and floppy

[GeneAnthony]

I have Red Hat 7.3 installed and the CDRom and floppy used to work but neither seem to now. I'm not getting an error but now it's acting as if it can't see anything on them. I even tried a CD that I know it read 2 days ago and I'm getting nothing. I go into /mnt/cdrom and it's just blank. I have WinXP as a dual boot and both are still reading in there. Any help?

[The Elf]

What if you manually mount the cdrom?

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Then look in /mnt/cdrom and if you got something you know it wasn't mounted.

[mdwatts]

Perhaps your cdrom is not being automounted.

Have a look at the cdrom entry in /etc/fstab to see if you have 'auto' or 'noauto'.

If you have 'noauto', you will need to manually mount the device yourself.

mount /mnt/<cdrom mountpoint> (whatever is specified in /etc/fstab)

[GeneAnthony]

Actually mounting the drive helped I was just in Linux. I had to swap back to Windows before I could reply since my modem doesn't do sh*t there! I don't know why it got unmounted but it works perfect now. I hope I don't have to do that everytime.