cdrom no longer mounts
 

Hello All:

Hopefully someone can help w/ this :
I'm a newbie just weened from MS. I used to mount my cdrom by:

mount -t iso9660 -v /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

However, now I get several error messages, which are:

mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write protected, mounting read only
mount: No medium found.

There is also another issue. It seems that only root can mount the cdrom, so I su'd and tried. The above is what I got.

Please help. I just solved a volume problem via aumix and am hungry for some sounds.

Thanks,

ergo_sum

Clearly from your post you trying to mount an audio cd. This you cannot do in Linux. You will want to load up whatever program your using to play music from your cd, it will load the cd to play from.

This is asked alot, a quick search would have found an answer.

Regards.

Well. let's see.

I admit I'm a newbie. but "quick search" is not accurate --at least on google. I've got google pimples all over from looking for so long. This isn't a spurious posting. Reread it. I used to be able to mount the cd and now I can't.
I haven't found anybody w/ this problem. and lo, in a few hours it'll be--how do you say---24 hrs to 1st post.

PS-- the "sounds" I alluded to were for inspiration whilst I dig for info on this os.
PSS--do I have a problem w/ my cd or is it my lack of knowledge?

Thanks,

Eagerly awaiting a relevant reply,

ergo_sum

So I take it your NOT trying to mount an audio cd and in fact NO cd will mount. Right? Is it a DVD drive as well? Do you have any other OSes on you computer? If you have another OS try the drive there.

So your telling me this:

From March 6th, 2003 there have been over 435 threads with the word "mount" included in them: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...der=descending and not one of them had a similiar problem of yours?

And from August 3rd, 2001 there have been 246 threads: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...der=descending with the words "mount and cdrom" in them with nothing close to your problem?

I hate to tell you this but your question is a very common one. Once you said you were wanting play music, that told me right then and there why your getting the error your getting as you cannot mount audio cd's or media dvd's and the such. If you were mounting it once before, I don't know how, maybe your distribution was mounting it automatically with some sort of emulation. But to me, mounting a music cdrom is useless. Why don't you try bringing up your cd player or xmms and see if you can't play the cd. Or pop in a data cd and see if you get the same error. If you get the same error with a data cd, try throwing this command at a console then try to mount again... depmod -a

Regards.

PS. BTW, My post and response was very relevant the first time.