I've got this goofy problem that I have to mount both floppies and CD's with a terminal
window command - even though I've got a working X Windows setup. A user here helped me
figure out a working command to mount the floppy - it's:
mount -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ -t vfat

This works every time - but no one can figure out why I have to invoke it. Never mind.

Now I need to find a similar command to mount my CD drive. I tried the following:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

This worked only on a data CD. When I try and mount a music CD, I get the prompt that I must 'specify a filesystem'. I tried:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom /iso9660 - didn't work

The relevant fstab lines are:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

And a $#@! CASE of beer to anyone who can figure out why this doesn't work 'out of the box'!
I'm running stock Slackware 9.1 (full install) and use the KDE and Gnome desktops.

Try this command

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Sounded good - tried it - got:
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems

And yes, it's a good CD - I was just playing it on my Window$ computer (sigh).

try it with -t udf

You have to mount it manually if you haven't got those lines in your fstab.
A cdrom not mounting could also mean kernel trouble, if you compiled your own, I would start there......

You cannot mount an audio CD although you can play it. This is because auido CD's don't have a real filesystem.

Tried the alternate command - gives:
root@Labrat:~# mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems

P>You have to mount it manually if you haven't got those lines in your fstab.

As I put in the top of this thread:
JH>The relevant fstab lines (CD & floppy - where my probs exist) are:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

P>A cdrom not mounting could also mean kernel trouble, if you compiled your own, I would start there......

As mentioned earlier:
JH>I'm running stock Slackware 9.1 (full install) and use the KDE and Gnome desktops. Stock - like no compiles, no mods of any sort. If I knew enough to do compiles, I don't think I'd be having this problem (grin).

Reddazz is dead-on there is no directly mountable fs on CDDA.

For the automounts; is autofs running?
Is there a reference in /etc/auto.master?

Actiomally, cdrom is automounted without using /etc/auto.master, so scratch that.

Thanks for your help guys!

You are correct, I can play an audio CD without mounting it. Why there is no sound coming out of a (previously) working sound card is another problem...

I'm about to wipe out the Slackware install on this box, and put in Debian. Why? 'Cause no one can solve my floppy problems, and support from www.slackware.com is non-existant.

I've sent them multiple emails, called, emailed again - all very politely, and gotten no response for two weeks. Now the entire company is going on vacation for a week! This is not the way to support an OS...

They promise install support, if you buy the official CD's. I did, along with a book that turns out to be four years out of date, and somewhat poorly written. I've gotten WAY more support from the folks here...

It's too bad - Slackware is VERY fast, I like it a lot. But an OS that you have to issue a commandline to mount a floppy in, is not mature...

Perhaps your hardware is not informing the OS that a CD has been inserted. See that following link regarding the same issue on Solaris:
http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solari...ris2.html#q3.5

No, it's not my CD that's the main issue. It's the fact that my floppy drive mounts in read-only mode when in any Desktop/GUI.

The only way to avoid this is to open a terminal, and type:
mount -o rw /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy/ -t vfat

Rather a longwinded way to make your floppy drive work, right?

When I do that, it works perfectly! And no one can tell me why, or how to fix it. I've been through my fstab and other files quite exhaustively - see my other posts, so I don't repeat myself. Especially the long one about write probs in Gnome.