Cdrom drive problem lenovo 0687

[Mumia W.]

On 09/03/2008 07:19 AM, squareyes wrote:
> Hi all,
> have a strange problem re combo cd/dvd drive on Lenovo laptop
> Drive works to install both Win Xp and Ubuntu (tried 7.10  and 8.04)
> same results, works to install systems, but once installed is no longer 
> accessible in either XP or Linux.
> 
> 
> Have just updated bios
> on trying to mount cd drive I get
> 
> squareyes at here-laptop:~$ mount /media/cdrom0/
> mount: /dev/scd0 is not a block device
> 
> etc/fstab
> 
>  # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> #
> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> # /dev/sda1
> UUID=5423422d-7205-4c55-8d6b-813d38e24a00 /               ext3    
> defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
> # /dev/sda5
> UUID=87923e95-585c-412a-9fec-a6249a2f0b46 none            swap    
> sw              0       0
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
> 
> 
> What am I doing wrong??
> 
> Many thanks
> Take Care
> Winton
> 

Right after bootup in Linux, look at the output of "dmesg" to find out 
what device to which the CD-ROM drive was attached.

Also, you'll find virtual device nodes in /dev. List "/dev/s[cd]*"; some 
of those will be hard drives, but at least one should be your CD-ROM drive.