Hi, good morning, I hope someone can help me...

I have a problem mounting my CDROM, i'm using collegelinux 2.5. After I installed it was working perfect however a few days later I couldn't mount my CDROM. I write this instruction "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" but it doesn't work, this message is displayed "No medium found". I've tried with many instructions else, but nothing happens, its the same message. Then I re-installed CollegeLinux but is still failing.

I expect your answers. Thank you

Sorry for my english. I am from Mexico.

Regards.

/dev/cdrom is often a symlink to the actual cddrive.

Try 'ls -lah /dev/cdrom', to have a look where the cd link is pointing, it may be the wrong drive.

If you have 'eject' installed, try 'eject /dev/cdrom' for a visual check that the cd is in the right drive!

Ok, thanks a lor for your help, i've tried with this:

ls- lah /dev/cdrom

and it is displayed:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jun 18 20:12 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0

what can i do? or what i have to do?

Thank you.

If you want this is my msn, luis_di_ra@hotmail.com

Regards.

This means that your cd drive is being controlled by linux's SCSI driver.
You either have a SCSI cd drive, or it is an IDE cd burner.

Try 'mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660', and/or 'eject /dev/scd0'. With the eject command your cd drive should pop out. If it doesn't, then scd0 isn't your cd-drive, in which case changing the symlink to point at the real cd drive is the only necessary step.

Do a 'dmesg | grep CD', to scan your bootup messages for CD drives.

I have : "hdc: ATAPI CD-RW 52X32, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive"
This means that my first cd drive is a 52x32 CD Rewriter drive, and is to be found at /dev/hdc. If I type 'eject /dev/hdc' out it pops.


Another thing to consider: are you trying all this as root? Is the CD drive set up in /etc/fstab if you aren't?

Well, the error your getting "No medium found" is saying that there is no CD in the drive.

Are you trying to mount a data CD, or an audio CD? Audio CD's do not need to be mounted. -- J.W.

Ok thank you everybody for your help, I already installed my cdrom device and it works!!! it had a configuration error. I don't know what happened but now its working

My problem now is, how can i do in order to burn cds? since my device is only identified as "read-only"

mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only

Thank you very much!!!!

About the seventh post down.

[http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rd+iso+mkisofs]


:make an iso image of the files to write
:burn that iso image to cd.

[You don't have to do a cdrecord -scanbus when using kernel 2.6, just try dev=/dev/hdc instead of dev=0,0,0]

what did you do to solve it? cause I have the same problem on a RedHat7.1 in an alphaserver300. Thank you very much.