FC3 CD-ROM Mount

carlgulliver100 · 12-31-2004, 01:05 PM

Hi, I recently upgraded from RH9 to FC3, but now non of my cd-rom drives will mount

1. DVD-ROM
2. CD-RW Drive

Every time i select mount it says, the format is either unreadable, i have bad blocks or too many file systems are mounted. So i tried several disks and all come out the same :S

I am a OS X user on my main computer which is an Emac, but i would love to have FC3 working on my other machine instead of dropping back to RH9. Please help. Thanks in advance...

mmmm · 01-01-2005, 01:21 PM

what "fdisk -l" print ?

aero402 · 01-01-2005, 01:35 PM

Have you downloaded the updates? I had the same problem but then downloaded a ton of updates that seemed to fix it. Specifically I think there was a udev and kernel update that may have fixed it.

Pedroski · 01-01-2005, 02:24 PM

They changed things. You probably have /dev/hdc as your cd drive and /dev/hdd as your dvd drive. They are now mounted on /media/cdrom or /media/cdwriter by default. You may have a link /dev/dvd to /dev/hdc. Of couse you can mount them where you will, but the default auto mount or whatever in FC3 is /media. The directory /mnt is still created, but may vanish in future editions, I suppose. But I'm no expert, this is my own bitter experience!

carlgulliver100 · 01-01-2005, 04:40 PM

Thanks to all ya replys, i will try fdisk -l and let you know. Where do i get these updates from? thanks in advance

carlgulliver100 · 01-01-2005, 04:48 PM

I tried again and it said the following:

/dev/hdc: Input/Output Error
Mount /dev/hdc, cant read superblock

Any ideas. Thanks peeps

Pedroski · 01-03-2005, 02:55 AM

I've had the same problem using SuSe 9.1 In Fedora it worked. I did chmod 777 /dev/hdc but it still caused me probs. xmms couldn't read the cds, even though it said (xmms) that the check drive and mount directory were ok, digital extraction ok
Maybe something went haywire dutring the installation?

carlgulliver100 · 01-03-2005, 10:55 AM

Do you suggest i do a re-install? Thanks in advance....

Linux~Powered · 01-03-2005, 11:21 AM

Try...

Code:

dmesg | less

and look through the output to see what /dev your cdrom is then edit your /etc/fstab with the appropriate /dev/hd? Post your /etc/fstab also

carlgulliver100 · 01-03-2005, 11:23 AM

ok cheers, i will try that when i get back tonight and post you results. Thanks peeps

Pedroski · 01-04-2005, 02:46 AM

fs will be auto most likely. A reinstall can't hurt, but may not help. I am still having the same with SuSe 9.1 on the other comp
You know you can't mount music cds? Just thought I'd mention it!
Can you mount them as root?

Pedroski · 01-04-2005, 02:47 AM

I meant, can you mount a data cd as root? My English is getting worse!

Pedroski · 01-04-2005, 12:17 PM

Well, I still can't enter /media/cdrecorder using Konquerer, but I can play a cd with xmms, so that's progress. I messed around with fstab in SuSe, comparing things on both computers FC3 works fine, SuSe doesn't!
If you do, just put a # in front of the lines for /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrecorder, then you can always restore them if you need to, copy them to a line below, then fire away!