[NCLUG] error: "mount: No medium found"

[S. Luke Jones]

S. Luke Jones wrote:
> The /etc/fstab entry says:
> 
> /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0
> /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0
> 
> But mount doesn't work, with or without all the arguments that
> /etc/fstab allows me to avoid.

Other info: there are plenty of people on google with this
problem (mostly mailing list archives) but they don't appear
to be getting answers either. :-(

Besides what I said earlier about the CD being good enough when
I was installing from it, I see that it's at least marginally
sane at boot time:

# dmesg | grep CD
hdc: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: AOpen 12X DVD-ROM/ASH 01112001, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Univorm CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
  Vendor: PLEXTOR  Model: CD-R  PX-W1610A  Rev: 1.01
  Type:   CD-ROM                           ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

I'm not sure what's up with the scsi (i.e. WTF?) although
I also noticed that the RH installer put together a lilo.conf
that features:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-12
	label=linux
	read-only
	root=/dev/hda1
	append="hdc=ide-scsi"

so I'm assuming that Plextor is only grudgingly hopping onto
the IDE bandwagon and have made their unit act as SCSI-ish as
they possibly could.

So. Is this ringing any bells with anyone? Please?

P.S. the exact message is:

# mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: No medium found

I get the exact same message when I do it the hard way...
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

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