On Wed, 13 Nov 2002, rod holcomb wrote:

> Does any of this help???
> Nov 13 14:33:00 cbat kernel: ide-floppy driver 0.97
> Nov 13 14:33:01 cbat insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o: insmod ide-cd 
failed
> Nov 13 14:33:01 cbat kernel: hdc: driver not present

It can't find the module.  Its missing.  Somehow, you need to insmod or
modprobe this driver.  If you manually do it, it should mount.