Hello,

I have some questions on my SuSE install. I am clueless on how to mount drives. I am starting to get familiar with some of the commands, but keep getting errors like:

mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

then I get...

block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only

understandable...then...

No medium found


Hmmmmm......

Also, my cd recorder doesn't want to mount either...

mount /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder

and then...

Input/Output error

Hmmmmmm......

Any suggestions?

Also, how do you get the functionality of not having to mount and unmount things manually? Seems that I have to keep mounting and unmounting to have them work properly. I heard that this is necessary everytime you wish to open and close the cd trays. Is this true? Is there a way to have it done automatically, like (may get me in trouble...) windows?

Thanks in advance!

try mount /mnt/cdrom......
and to unmount u do umount /mnt/cdrom

doing that gets me...

mount: can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

I read something about this somewhere here, but I don't know how to edit or put that in there

Thanks.

also, i tried the mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom thing also with no luck

Post your /etc/fstab for us to look at.

What's in the drives? An audio CD? A blank CD?

I'm not sure SuSe has supermount, but I know Mandrake has and I haven't had one problem with it. I don't know why it isn't standard now automatically mount and unmount CDs.

Guys,

Here is the /etc/fstab file:

dev/hda3, /, reiserfs, defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1, /boot, ext2, defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrecorder, /media/cdrecorder, auto, ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom, /media/cdrom/, auto, ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
devpts, /dev/pts, devpts, defaults 0 0
/dev/dvd, /media/dvd, auto, ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0, /media/floppy, auto, noauto, user, sync 0 0
proc, /proc, proc, defaults 0 0
usbdevfs, /proc/bus/usb, usbdevfs, defaults, noauto 0 0
/dev/hda2, swap, swap, pri=42 0 0

Thanks!

mcleodnine,

In my cdrom/dvd I have a DVD. In the recorder, which i can open and close with the push button for some reason now...I had both a blank cd and then one of the linux install disks.

Thanks, KP.

X11,

I'll look for the supermount thing...

Thanks again...

A couple more questions,
1) What do /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrecorder and /dev/dvd link to?
2) Do you have ide-scsi set up for your burner?
3) Does /dev/cdrecorder link to /dev/hd# or /dev/scd# ?
4) Do you have the directories /media/cdrom etc...?

Aussie,

1) What do /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrecorder and /dev/dvd link to?

I tried something last night someone else told me to do, in the console using a "ln" command, but there were so many, I can't remember.

2) Do you have ide-scsi set up for your burner?

I wouldn't know if I did.

3) Does /dev/cdrecorder link to /dev/hd# or /dev/scd# ?

Again, wouldn't know.

4) Do you have the directories /media/cdrom etc...?

Yes, I have all those directories.

Thanks again...

PS What part of Australia you from? My wife is (was) a Sydney-sider at one time...

if i remember right it should be
ln /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrecorder
(for example)

screwball,

that yields...

ln: '/dev/cdrom': warning: making a hard link to a symbolic link is not portable

What does that mean?

Do "ls -al /dev/cdrom"
Look for append = "hd#=ide-scsi" in your lilo.conf ( or the equivalent grub file).
Do "ls -al /dev/cdrecorder"
I'm a Kiwi who grew up in Sydney and now lives in Brisbane.