Mandrake 10 - Can't open / mount audio CD
 

I've completed my install of Mandrake10 (finally) and now I'm having some problems with mounting audio CDs

I've tried googling this, and found problems playing audio CDs but I can't find anything about not mounting CDs

Here's the contents of /etc/fstab...

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,noauto,exec 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0


And /etc/mtab...
/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
none /sys sysfs rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 rw 0 0

I seem to recall on my previouse system (RedHat9 - where the CDs worked btw) that there was an iso9660 deal in the fstab file.

I've tried
mount -t iso9960 -o ro /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

to no avail. I get "Bad Block" errors.

I get this with every audio cd I've tried (about 20).

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks

First, audio cds are not mountable because they have no filesystem. Second, mandrake 10 uses an automounter for cds called magicdev. If you put a data cd in the drive it should automatically be mounted; eject it and it will automatically unmount. With magicdev running you can't mount a cd using the mount command. Your fstab entry for your cd drive is a little different than mine:

/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

in that you don't have the "umask=0" option. You might try adding that.

As for as your audio cds, try opening up your cd playing program; i believe KsCD is the default app for that and see if you can play and audio cd.

I am also having a problem with mounting CDs (even data) in Mandrake 10. My fstab shows the following:

/dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hdc6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0

has the umask cmd in there also as you can see.
I am trying to reinstall the Mandrake system altogether because for some reason I can't login as root now (and I just got a new HD so mine as well use it). And I can't even get the CD to show up at all, even thought the machine is set to boot of the CD.

BTW whats the default app for mpg and wmv?

a good prog to use for cd playing is "cdcd" is a shell like cd player,
you can use "cdda2wav" or "cdparania" to rip the raw files off the audio cd

and for mpg and wmv (or ANY media file) is "mplayer" http://www.mplayerhq.hu

remove codepage and umask i've got an error after compiling a new kernel 2.6.8 , don't know why mandrake use codepage and umask but if you change your kernel you will have problèms with that.

cheers ;)