Problem mounting CD-ROM: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom

Oooska · 03-17-2002, 04:00 PM

I tried to mount my cdrom drive as either root and a regular user, but when I do I get this error:

Code:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems

The line pertaining to the drive in fstab is:

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/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom       iso9660 noauto,ro,users 0 0

Also when I login as root and try to use either the GNOME or KDE CD players music plays just fine, but if I try it as a regular user I get an error saying permission is denied. So it seems as if the CD players can mount the cdrom drive just fine as root.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks : )

isajera · 03-17-2002, 04:11 PM

well... if you're using audio cd's, then you don't mount them. audio cd's don't really use typical filesystem formats - they have a table of contents, and a couple of tracks... not a real filesystem. data cd's are written differently... they have a filesystem, so they need to be mounted.

hanzerik · 03-17-2002, 04:16 PM

look in /dev and see if you even have a device called cdrom.

If you dont then create one
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

/dev/hdc is what my cdrom drive is on, yours may be different.

LinuzRulz · 03-17-2002, 06:18 PM

I got mine to mount like this....go into terminal as SU, then type....

chmod a+rwx /mnt/cdrom
then I had to reboot ..............after that it worked

Oooska · 03-17-2002, 10:43 PM

Thanks guys, my CDROM drive mounts now. However, I still can't the CD Player to play any CDs yet. I get this error when I load it. I've tried everything I can think of, my regular account has ownership and auth rights to access the CD drive, but I still get that error.

*Edit: Silly vB code.

hanzerik · 03-18-2002, 11:21 AM

make sure you have permmision to access the actual dev ie; hdc.

do a ls -al /dev/cdrom and see what device the simlink is pointing to. And give your normal users read, and maybe exec access to it

panjas51 · 03-19-2002, 04:51 AM

actually I am having the same problem.

fook forward to get your answers