I am posting this should anyone else encounter this problem it may be of some help.
On a recent install on P4 2.8Ghz Asrock mobo SIS chipset with 512Mb ram the cd/rw drive could not be mounted (mount /dev/cdrom). The error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too many mounted filesystems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed
The CD drive is an IDE, set as master on second ide channel and is displayed as dev hdc during boot up.
So you would expect /dev/hdc symlinked to /dev/cdrom to work.
With my attention drawn to the bit about ide-scsi in the error message i changed the symlink by typing:
#ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
Now the drive mounts fine
It would appear the system is interpreting the drive as a scsi.
Perhaps everybody is aware of this, but I thought I would give it a mention, in the hope it would save somebody else like myself a bit of time.
Regards
Jack
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