can't mount a dvd on a cd burner/dvd rom drive
i have a combo cd burner/dvd rom drive. I tried to mount a dvd in it but it said no meda found. Is there a way to configure to be able to read both cds and dvds? Im guessing it involves fstab.
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I also have a CD-RW/DVD Combo drive and I just have a normal fstab entry for it.
/dev/cdrom /cd0 iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 |
i haven't edited the fstab before, is there a good tutorial about doing so? i don't want to mess with it and possibly screw it up.
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first thing post your fstab, maybe you need to fix only one thing...
it's very easy to edit that file, there is nothing really complex in it, follow these steps as root: 1. make a new folder like /mnt/dvd or /mount/dvd or /dvd, depending on your system. it doesn't really matter by what name and where you create it. now i'll assume you created /mount/dvd just to make things clear. 2. with a text editor (like kedit or gedit) open /etc/fstab, it will look something like Code:
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 Code:
/dev/hdc /mount/dvd iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 note that if you want to write your dvds then you'll have to write rw instead of ro in your fstab |
this is my fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 when you are creating the /mnt/dvd folder then editing the fstab to reference it is that creating a symbolic link or am i mistaken? |
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Your /dev/cdrom is most likely a symlink to a block device. If you type ls -l /dev/cdrom you will see what device is your cdrom: Code:
ls -l /dev/dvd /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 or /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 |
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Oct 16 00:12 /dev/dvd -> /dev/cdrom
that is what i get when i do ls -l /dev/dvd |
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/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 |
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