Hi guys i need some help. I've been reading through this forum and found some topics which were similar to my problem but i couln't find the solution yet.


Here is my problem:

I just instaled Fedora 3 on my Laptop and ran the update wizard.
Since the beginning i am not able to mount any kind of CD's (before or after the updates).
when i double click on the cdrecorded icon on my KDE desktop i receive a window showing "Mounting /dev/hdc" and that's it!!! it stays like this all the time (at 0 percent)
When i try to mount via the terminal with the command MOUNT /DEV/HDC /MEDIA/CDRECORDER nothing happens either. the cursor just jumps to the empty line below and stays there.

I have a Ricoh RW8160 cdrw/dvd-rw drive.
i could not find any Linux drivers for it and i'm not even sure if they even are necessery.


my fstab file looks like this:


LABEL=/1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL-boot1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts grid=5, mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole, exec, noauto, fscontext=system_u: object_r:removable_t, managed 0 0

I hope this is enough information for you guys.

Please help me with this.


Thanks in advance and hope to hear from you soon.

As it is now what does the 'mount' command show.
Try the following;

If the mount command shows /media/cdrecorder
can you unmount it with umount /media/cdrecorder?

If the mount command does not show /dev/hdc and/or /media/cdrecorder can you do mkdir /mnt/cdrom (assuming /mnt/cdrom does not exist) and then 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom' ?

Seems like wasted effort but I've found that it's better when I start with the simple things first.

nz

dear nonzero

when i type the command mount /media/cdrecorder
the same happent as the last time, the cursor just jumps down to the next line and stays there and does nothing.

when i try to umount /media/cdrecorder the system replays
/media/cdrecorder: not found

so i did the mkdir /mnt/cdrom and it did create a directory in the folder mnt.
then i punched the command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
and i got the replay "mount: mount point mnt/cdrom does not exist



do you maybe have any other ideas?

Also, i just noticed something really strange.


every time i restart the computer it's like the fstab file resets itself. the cd-rom line is gone!!!!!

do you have any idea how this can be?

Are you doing this as a user or as root? You may need to su to root then try the mount command, and just to humor me cd to /mnt and see if directory cdrom is there.
In FC3 the HAL daemon runs at boot and rewrites fstab every time. You can see how this works by reading 'man fstab-sync'. I am probably confusing you with the mount /mnt/cdrom command, but /mnt has been where external filesystems have been mounted in Linux since it's inception. /media/whatever, is foreign to me, and is part of the reason I moved several machines off of FC3 and on to Slackware.

nz

Well, i installed Red Hat 9 this weekend to see if this will work. Just to check if this is not a problem with my CD-ROM drive. It works prefectly. So i'll just be using Red Hat now.

But it's very strang because at work i installed Fedora on a different desktop System twice and the weird thing is that when i use Gnome, the CD-ROM worksm but under KDE, i get exactly the same error as i got with my Laptop.


i think this is maybe some kind of issue here. Do you guys think this is possible?



Anyway thanks all for your kind help. If i ran into some trouble while learning this OS i'll let you know.



Thanks again.