cdrom mounting problems ?

[Jack Bowling]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 06:24:54PM +0100, Peter Diercks wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> Has this problem been solved in the meantime? I "lost" my cdrom drive,
> too. It happened while trying to start a music cd. The drive did not
> manage to read the disk and stopped working, though it had read the cd
> several times before. The cd (a commercial one) is ok. Anyway, from that
> moment on my cdrom has virtually disappeared, and I don't know how to
> reactivate it. The system keeps telling me the drive cannot be mounted:
> 
>    mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist
> 
> Any new ideas?
>
I had this happen as well. But it turned out I had knocked the
connecting cable from the CD off the motherboard header when I was
upgrading RAM. You may want to check to see if the physical connection is
fine. 

Jack