Problem mounting cdrom on CDROM-floppy hot swap Dell laptop

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>  debian 2.4.26 knoppix 3.4 hd install





get invalid block device

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


here are my data

get not valid block device errors



/etc/fstab

/dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0


info from dmesg


mod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2
scsi0 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
scsi1 : Adaptec AIC7XXX EISA/VLB/PCI SCSI HBA DRIVER, Rev 6.2.36
(scsi0:A:0): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
(scsi0:A:1): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit)
(scsi0:A:2): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
(scsi0:A:3): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
(scsi0:A:4): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
(scsi0:A:5): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
(scsi0:A:8): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
(scsi0:A:9): 40.000MB/s transfers (20.000MHz, offset 15, 16bit)
scsi0:A:0:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
scsi0:A:1:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
scsi0:A:2:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
scsi0:A:3:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
scsi0:A:4:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
scsi0:A:5:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
scsi0:A:8:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
scsi0:A:9:0: Tagged Queuing enabled.  Depth 253
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdc at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdd at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sde at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdf at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdg at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
Attached scsi disk sdh at scsi0, channel 0, id 9, lun 0
scsi2 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices




listing of cdrom from /dev

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            6 Dec 20  2005 sbpcd -> sbpcd0
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     25,   0 Apr 14  2001 sbpcd0
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     25,   1 Apr 14  2001 sbpcd1
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     25,   2 Apr 14  2001 sbpcd2
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     25,   3 Apr 14  2001 sbpcd3
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   0 May 30  2001 scd0
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   1 May 30  2001 scd1
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,  10 May 30  2001 scd10
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,  11 May 30  2001 scd11
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,  12 May 30  2001 scd12
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,  13 May 30  2001 scd13
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,  14 May 30  2001 scd14
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,  15 May 30  2001 scd15
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,  16 May 30  2001 scd16
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   2 May 30  2001 scd2
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   3 May 30  2001 scd3
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   4 May 30  2001 scd4
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   5 May 30  2001 scd5
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   6 May 30  2001 scd6
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   7 May 30  2001 scd7
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   8 May 30  2001 scd8
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   9 May 30  2001 scd9

any help really appreciated on this

tia

peter

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