Mandrake & cdrom mounts

[longhorn1687]

I am having a little problem..

I want to install a package from my madrake cdrom. I am using the Mandrake Control center which in turn is attemping to install the desired packages however for whatever reason it is trying to read from a cdrom that was replaced a while back and obviously giving me an error. My question is how do I redirect Mandrake Control Center to another CD drive. It seems that it must be a settings file for the control center somewhere that needs to be changed but I have no idea where it is.


Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
RH

[michaelk]

What version of Mandrake are you running? Did you replace the CDROM with the same type etc?

Are you getting any errors when you mount the CD? If you look at hardware in the control center does it recongize your CDROM drive and does its device match whats in your /etc/fstab file?

[longhorn1687]

In the hardware control center my drives show up as /dev/scd0 and /dev/hdd when I try to mount them I get the folowing error:

# /usr/bin/mntcd
mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No medium found
mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist

Mandrake Control Center, when trying to install packages defaults to that /dev/scd0 device but obviously it cannot because of this error.

The drive that "does not exist" is a Philips cd burner and it is setup as the master drive on my second ide controller.

i am using Mandrake 9.0 (just upgraded) and I may have confused as I didn't actually replace drive I just moved it from slave to master.

[mdwatts]

Is /dev/hdc symlinked to /dev/scd0?

ls -al /dev/hdc

ls -al /dev/scd0

Since you switched your cdwriter from slave to master, check your bootloader config to see if you need to change hdd=ide-scsi to hdc=ide-scsi.