mount /media/cdrom doesn't work

HDD · 03-04-2004, 11:37 AM

Hey, I've heard good things about this forum so I decided to ask for help here.

I'm running SuSE 8.1 Pro. and I have a CDRW and a separate DVD drive on my computer. However suddenly neither of them would mount any more.
I don't know why and I don't know what happened. Whenever I try to mount by saying "mount /media/cdrom" (doesn't matter whether or not I'm superuser) I get the error message "/dev/cdrom: Input/Output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type" while the kernel (on screen F10) says "ide-scsi: hdc: unsuported command in request queue (0)"

All help if very much appreciated!

neilcpp · 03-04-2004, 12:17 PM

Hi, could you post the contents of your /etc/fstab file and also the subdirectories in the /media file?

Also, have you just recently installed new hardware & or the new operating system - or was everything working ok previously?

HDD · 03-04-2004, 12:56 PM

Quote:

/dev/hda5 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /boot reiserfs defaults 1 2
/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda6 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0
/dev/hda4 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

I have recently installed the OS but no new hardware. And it was working when I first installed it. This just randomly started happening.
I've just noticed that the same thing has happened to my server (the exact same OS). I never need the CD on that one so it doesn't matter.
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michaelk · 03-05-2004, 12:31 AM

What type of CD are you trying to mount? Have you ever mounted this CD before?

HDD · 03-05-2004, 09:42 AM

I have a DVD-ROM and a CD-RW.
It doesn't matter what type of CD it is. It doesn't work. I've tried both data CD and Audio.
No I haven't manually mounted it before but SuSE has when installing new programs of the CD (but that has also stopped working).

I have discovered that I can can't mount /media/dvd or /media/cdrom but when I do mount /media/cdrecorder the DVD mounts itself. What is going on?????

Thank you!