Can't mount CD-RW in Red Hat 9

mcsquare · 10-04-2003, 10:07 PM

I've started having trouble mounting my cd-rw drive all of a sudden. Today it started giving me this message:

"wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom1, or too many mounted file systems"

I'm really confused because it was working fine before and I haven't done anything to my /etc/fstab file recently. This problem just came out of nowhere. Help?

michaelk · 10-05-2003, 07:17 AM

What type of CD did you try to mount?

You can't mount music CD's

Adaptec DirectCD or Nero InCD use the UDF filesystem not iso9660

You might have a bad CD or one with errors. Maybe scratched or warped somehow.

Did you try mounting another CD?

mcsquare · 10-07-2003, 01:40 AM

It was a blank CD-R. I know you can't mount audio CDs, it wasn't an audio and I tried several so I don't think it was a bad disc. But I've gotten it to work since then, but it seems like I just can't mount an empty CD. Is this normal?

michaelk · 10-07-2003, 06:32 AM

Yep, blank CDs are just that blank. No filesystem exists to mount.