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Old 10-13-2002, 06:31 PM   #16
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note: you cannot mount audio cd's. it will give you an error or say "unknown/invalid operating system".
 
Old 10-13-2002, 11:41 PM   #17
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Master C

I tried "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" as root. I get this message:
"mount: block device /dev/hdc is a write protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted files systems."

linuxlastslonge,

OK, if you don't mount audio cd's then how do you play them?
 
Old 10-14-2002, 01:26 AM   #18
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An answer to the question to linuxlastslonge:

You just play the device, not the files. So if you find the program asking to specify the location of the files you would say: /dev/cdrom

Then either you already have it mounted (maybe via supermount) or you need to build support for the iso fileystem into your kernel.

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Old 10-14-2002, 12:17 PM   #19
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This is gonna sound really rude, but please don't take it in the wrong manner. You should really read up on mounting. It's one of the fundamental points that completely confuses recent Windows converts. It's not a hard-to-understand principle, but it is quite different to the way that Windows works. Read about it and you'll feel more comfortable about why an audio CD cannot be mounted.
 
Old 10-14-2002, 12:44 PM   #20
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Actually Thymox, that was very well put. I will point him/her/you towards some resources for that:
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO/index.html

And of course:

man mount here at LQ:
http://man.linuxquestions.org/index....ction=0&type=2

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Old 10-14-2002, 01:49 PM   #21
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I was writing that script yesterday MasterC, and all of a sudden my box decided my cdrom didn't exists anymore. It was called /dev/hdc; then it up and decided to start calling itself /dev/cdrom (with no reboot or remount).

had to change fstab and rmount.

There be gremlins here...

--Mark.
 
Old 10-14-2002, 02:46 PM   #22
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I understand that I should read up on mounting. It is still confusing to me, granted! However, let me explain what I am doing when I try to play some tunes. I click my xmms icon in kde. I then press the play button which produces a separate "load files" window. I then choose /dev, which fills the directories and files columns. I then choose "cdrom" in the files column, because I do not have a "cdrom" directory. When I choose the cdrom file to play the music from the "load files" window disappears and the only thing left on kde is the xmms player, with no songs loaded. I'm not trying to mount the cdrom to play the music! I'm trying to play xmms!
 
Old 11-05-2002, 10:32 PM   #23
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Forget it! I reinstalled the OS (mandrake 8.1) and things work perfectly. Thanks all for your help.
 
Old 07-04-2005, 11:59 PM   #24
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Actually, I've seen the same stuff. It seems something is setting /dev/hdc permissions so only root can use hdc
 
  


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