I'm running Debian on a laptop. I have a CD/DVD ROM drive installed. I installed debian from the CD, and I have tested a CD or two and reading data appears to work fine. Although, now I'm trying to access an audio CD and I am getting errors. In KDE, two devices appear: "CD-ROM [/cdrom]" and "CD-ROM [/media/cdrom]" When I try to access either one, it says:

"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
or too many mounted file systems
Please check that the disk is entered correctly."

I'm a bit new to Linux, (I’m a familiar with mounting), so I would like to know how to set up a CD rom drive (in the KDE gui -- if there is a way other than just putting it in and having linux detect it) and maybe some ways to find out if things are working right.

Any help would be great.

/dev/hda looks like your IDE harddisk (primary master)

is your cdrom really on /dev/hda ?
try scanning the output of the "dmesg" command (as root)
for instances of cdrom and verify which device is matching
your cdrom (probably /dev/hdc)
e.g. as root run: "dmesg | grep -i cdrom"
is the symlink /dev/cdrom set up correctly ?

Yes, I noticed that! The gui was using the file cdrom, which was just a link to cdrom0, which was just a link to /dev/hda. I have a physical cdrom drive, so I'm pretty sure pointing to hda isn't correct. I found a source on the net about mounting drives, which said the generic mounting point for CDROM is /mnt/cdrom, but there was no folder with that name in my mnt folder. I created one... but I don't know how to proceed from here.

I did what you said, first typed "dmesg | grep -i cdrom" and got:

SJCD: Sanyo CDR-H94A cdrom driver version 1.7.
SJCD: Sanyo CDR-H94A cdrom driver version 1.7.
SJCD: Sanyo CDR-H94A cdrom driver version 1.7.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
SJCD: Sanyo CDR-H94A cdrom driver version 1.7.

When I just typed "dmesg", I saw lots and lots of messages about /dev/hda and errors:

ATAPI device hda:
Error: Not ready -- (Sense key=0x02)
Media load or eject failed -- (asc=0x53, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Test Unit Ready" packet command was:
"00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "

Thanks for the quick reply, I look forward to your further help!

do you have SCSI emulation enabled for CDROM ? is it a CD-burner?

the output of "dmesg | grep hd" should give some more infos

I figured it out. I didn't have the correct permissions to access the drive, strangely enough. I could access data just fine, but not audio, until I went in as root and changed the permissions for /dev/hda.

Thanks for the replies!