Hello.

I've been using mandrake for a couple of years now, and have never had this problem before.

I can't mount or use my cd or dvd drives.

I'm sure they used to use iso 9660, but are now set to iso8859-15. I've tried changing this back, with no luck. I've been through the mandrake control centre time and again, changing as many things as I can, and have no idea what I need to do to be able to use these drives.

I don't remember tinkering with anything which would have stopped them working, although I have upgraded my distro, recompiled my kernel, and changed my window manager in the last few months.

Is it likely that any of these things have been done incorrectly - in which case I hope it's not the kernel config! that would be a pain!

Is there a way of setting the options to make them work?

here's the relevant parts of my fstab:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 umask=0,user,iocharset=iso9660,codepage=850,suid,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

and dmesg | grep "^hd"
hdc: _NEC DVD_RW ND-3520A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LITE-ON LTR-40125S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hdd: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 1984kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: command error: error=0x54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0x05 }

Hope somebody can help, my next option is going back to the kernel config to make sure I enabled the iso9660, but I can't believe I wouldn't have done that!

Cheers,

Stu

I don't know if this solves your problem but it seems you have mixed up the iso standards. The iso 9660 is a standard for a cdrom file system format, iso 8859-15 is a character encoding format. So the first line of your fstab should be:

Thanks, but it's not helped. When I rebooted it changed back to the settings you described, and it's still not working. I feel a 2 week kernel faff, followed by a fresh installation coming on!

Thanks for the advice though, I've at least learned why they're different!