Can't mount cdrom

[Piker]

Hi, I"m having problems mounting my cdrom drive... i've done everything I can think of and still no luck so i'm hopin someone can help me out.

if i try to mount my cdrom as root of course i get this:

mount /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom

no matter what i get:

/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device.
dev/hdd is not a valid block device.

But if i check out /proc/ide/hdd everything shows up as my cdrom drive.

I do ls -al /dev/cdrom:

/dev/cdrom --> /dev/hdd

I have /dev/cdrom in my fstab:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,noowner,ro 0 0

something like that.. it's all there, so my mount point is defined.

I have no idea what is wrong... I have however ran ./MAKEDEV as root :S thinking that would fix my alsa devices before... i'm not sure if that would have messed anything up, please any help is appreciated.

[Pimp Daddy]

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,noowner,ro 0 0

As far as I know there is no such thing as noowner. If there was, it doesn't sound like it would do any good.

Try changing this:

noauto,noowner,ro

to this:

noauto,users,ro

When you right click on the device icon and select properties in root, make sure that the user is a non-root account and you have all the appropriate advanced access permissions.

[Hellmasker]

u do have a cd in the drive right? u get that error if u try to mount an empty drive.

noowner was probably made by ur install program so that u dont have to worry about setting up the drive for non-root users

if u have a custom kernel check that u have enabled iso9660 support.