External CD-RW mount problems
 

Hi guys,

i have external HP USB CDRW 8200 & i am having problems mounting it. i read some of the forums, but i couldn't figure it out. so i am asking you for help. when i run cdrecord-scanbus i get the following message:

root@darkstar:/home/stanislav# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 J￿rg Schilling
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25
Using libscg version 'schily-0.7'
scsibus1:
1,0,0 100) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8200f' '1.0A' Removable CD-ROM
1,1,0 101) *
1,2,0 102) *
1,3,0 103) *
1,4,0 104) *
1,5,0 105) *
1,6,0 106) *
1,7,0 107) *

that doesn't mean anything to me. i guess my drive is at sg0 but i am not sure. if you have any sugestions, please don't hesitate.

thank a lot, Shemeta

I'd suggest you describe a problem? :)

I can't see any error messages or a description
of a problem you are facing?



Cheers,
Tink

well i can't mount my CDRW. i put that line in my fstab, but it doesn't work.

/dev/sg0 /mnt/cdrw auto noauto,user,owner,rw 0 0

& when i try to run mount /dev/sg0 i get the following message :

mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device

now i hope that describes better my problem

That's better :}

Try /dev/scd0 ... sg0 is the generic device, the
thing you talk to for burning ...

What's your native language, btw?


Cheers,
Tink

thanks for the quick reply. i think that helps. but now i get another message:

root@darkstar:/home/stanislav# mount /dev/scd0
/dev/scd0: Invalid argument
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/scd0: Invalid argument
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

what is the next step? what should i do?

My native language is bulgarian. just curious why did you ask?

Try to use iso9660 instead of auto ... also,
what's the mount-point?

Because English and German(Austrian) use
a very similar order of words in many cases,
and some of your patterns didn't match :}

Like the omission of the article in
"i have external HP USB CDRW 8200"
Native English speakers would have put
the "an" before "external", and so would a
German native speaker (they might have
made the mistake to use an "a" instead
of an "an").

Or "now i hope that describes better my problem"
looks odd in both English and German.


Cheers,
Tink

i changed it to iso9660 & i get another message:

root@darkstar:/home/stanislav# mount /dev/scd0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
or too many mounted file systems

& the mount point is /mnt/cdrw

any other ideas?

Next question ... do you have an
internal CD-ROM as well, and are
you using ide-scsi for it? :}

In this case the burner might be scd1


Cheers,
Tink

yes, i have internal DVD-ROM , but i have no clue if it uses ide-scsi :(

Post all of /etc/fstab, please ...

And I'll be gone for a while, so don't expect
an answer too soon (not from me, anyway :})


Cheers,
Tink

ok here is my fstab:

/dev/hda4 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 /mnt/disk_e vfat noauto,user,exec,nosuid,rw,umask=007 1 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/disk_c ntfs noauto,user,ro,exec,nosuid,umask=007 1 1
/dev/sda1 /mnt/external vfat user,exec,noauto,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1,quiet,umask=0 0 0 1 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,rw,exec 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

Doesn't give an indication for ide-scsi :}

Now, the thing you're trying to mount....
it wouldn't happen to be a blank CD-R? :)


Cheers,
Tink

Yup, you are right, i can't mount the drive with a blank cd in it. but it's working fine with regular cds. now the question is what should i do next? can you help me with that too?

thanks a lot, Shemeta

Sure, if you gave me an indication of what you're
trying to achieve? :)

I may be smart, but I'm not clairvoyant! ;}

Cheers,
Tink

well what i am trying to do is burn cds, especially in mod2. but i can't figure out how? do i need to mount the burner , so i can burn cds or not? i tried eroaster, but it can't recognize the burner.