Quote Originally Posted by rrfish72
Totally confused again. Can you do a step by step please???? I did change sr0 to point to cdrom1 ( <--- WRONG - you need /cdrom to point to sr0 ) and when I try to mount or open a data disc I get : Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: Too many levels of symbolic links

root@0[/]# ls -la /dev/cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 3 12:28 /dev/cdrom1 -> sr0 Nope

root@0[/]# ls -la /dev/sr?
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Sep 3 10:45 /dev/sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 6 02:05 /dev/sr1 -> scd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 6 02:05 /dev/sr2 -> scd2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 6 02:05 /dev/sr3 -> scd3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 6 02:05 /dev/sr4 -> scd4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 6 02:05 /dev/sr5 -> scd5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 6 02:05 /dev/sr6 -> scd6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 6 02:05 /dev/sr7 -> scd7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 6 02:05 /dev/sr8 -> scd8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 6 02:05 /dev/sr9 -> scd9

root@0[/]# ls -la /dev/scd?
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 8 20:17 /dev/scd0 -> scd0 Nope
brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 11, 1 May 30 2001 /dev/scd1
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 2 May 30 2001 /dev/scd2
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 3 May 30 2001 /dev/scd3
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 4 May 30 2001 /dev/scd4
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 5 May 30 2001 /dev/scd5
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 6 May 30 2001 /dev/scd6
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 7 May 30 2001 /dev/scd7
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 8 May 30 2001 /dev/scd8
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 9 May 30 2001 ???? did you just "clip" the output here???

Like I said... confused. Now I'm not sure what's pointing where.

Oh yeah, under the gun. Got a mental picture of that. Pretty bad.
Ok, from the output, here is what is wrong...
( 1 ) scd0 is now a symlink, it needs to look like /dev/scd1, but with a (zero) 0 ( scd0 is supposed to be a Block Device, designated by a b in the first position )
( 2 ) /dev/cdrom1 needs to point to sr1, not to sr0
( 3 ) you didn't provide the symlink output for /dev/cdrom, but it should be symlinked to sr0

Not sure how you would get your scd0 back, you might try a rm /dev/scd0, then a cp /dev/scd1 /dev/scd0 -=- not sure if this will work, you try it, and examine the output of ls -la /dev/scd? to see if scd0 is "like" scd1...

Then, examine the output of ls -la /dev/cdrom*, if /dev/cdrom is symlinked to sr0, leave that one alone... If /dev/cdrom1 is symlinked to sr0, you want to do a ln -sf sr1 /dev/cdrom1 - and another ls -la /dev/cdrom* should have /dev/cdrom pointing to sr0, and /dev/cdrom1 pointing to sr1.

Before doing anything more, at this point, lets re-check our outputs:

Post the output of the following:
ls -la /dev/scd?
ls -la /dev/sr?
ls -la /dev/cdrom*
ls -la /dev/dvd
ls -la /dev/cdaudio

Lastly, check if the "group" on scd0 is the same as the other scd# devices, it should be "cdrom" - I'll double check when I see your posted output of the above commands, if it isn't the right group, it isn't that hard to change it...

Ms. Cuddles