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I am unable to mount my Sony Supressa USB CDRW. It shows up in the Partitions in the Control Center as /dev/cdrom1 with a Mount Point of /mnt/cdrom1. FS Type = iso9660. Mount Option noauto, owner, kudzu.ro.
When I try to mount it I get the following error:
mount: wrong FS type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom1, or too many mounted file system.
RH 8.0 using KDiskFee, right click on device and selecting mount. This method works just fine on my IDE Zip and my other IDE CDR drive mounts automatically when a disk is inserted
The drive is a Sony Spressa CRX100E/X, USB 1 device
You have to remember you are talking to a newbie "ls" is a command for a directory on a mounted drive from my understanding but since I know very little I tried typing:
# ls -l /dev/cdrom1 su cdrecord -scanbus
I got the following error:
ls: su: No such file or directory
ls: cdrecord: No such file or directory
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 0 0 9 Oct 19 12:30 /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/scd1
The commands should be entered as discreet commands:
ls -l /dev/cdrom1 (press enter)
su (press enter)
(should ask you for root's password)
cdrecord -scanbus (press enter)
exit (press enter)
(returns you to normal user mode instead of root mode)
Now, the fact that your last line shows the device /dev/cdrom1 to be linked to the scsi-cdrom scd1 shows that it has recognised your USB CDRW and has loaded the appropriate module(s). You should now only need to give the output of cdrecord -scanbus (done as root).
Thanks! Duh I feel like such a computer newbie (am actually not I've been working in the non-linux computer field for 15 years)
Okay that apparently worked (see below). I am still unable to mount or at least browse the contents of cdrom1 (/mnt/cdrom1). I tried using KdiskFree, right click and mount as in the original thread message. I get the same error message. Thinking that the contents of the /etc/fstab file were incorrect I tried manually mounting:
# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1
mount: block device /dev/cdrom1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom1,
or too many mounted file systems
I eventually want to to auto-mount...there is obviously a way. I got my IDE-RAID drives working which was major success (at least for me). TMI I know...anyway your assistance to this point is appreciated.
mount: block device /dev/scd1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd1,
or too many mounted file systems
# mount /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom1
/dev/scd1: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/scd1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/scd1: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hde1 on /mnt/vfat_e type vfat (rw)
/dev/hdf1 on /mnt/vfat_f type vfat (rw)
/dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev)
ls -l /dev/scd1=
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 11, 1 Aug 30 16:31 /dev/scd1
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