I have one DVD drive installed in my computer, it's a Lite on DVD+RW Drive. Linux Mandrake 10.1 won't work with it at all, whenever I click the CD icon, nothings in it. No music will play from KSCD when music is inserted. I noticed at bootup, it stated something like this (all from memory) :

Mount: Mount type has not been selected. [FAILED]


so I went into configure my computer, and under mount, I tryed auto, ext2, and the iso996 one, none seem to work, when I selected those, it stated something like this at bootup

Mount: Bad FS Type, wrong mount, bad supermount on /dev/hdc. (more stuff) [FAILED]


can anyone please help me, and hope you all had a Good Christmas!

Try to mount it manually with the command

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

or

/dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2

bash: /dev/cdrom: no such file or directory.

is this a prob?

Ok, instead of /dev/cdrom I tryed /dev/hdc (thats its name)

so I did

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

Permission Denied

I did it under root, what gives?

Permission error.... maybe change the permissions on the /mnt/cdrom, at the command line:

chown 775 root /mnt/cdrom

That should give root permission for the directory

Sounds strange, I had mandrake 10.0 official download and those commands I gave you work for it. They must of changed it for 10.1

Check your /etc/fstab file, and post the contents of it so we can see what is being setup.

/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0




There you are, thanks for helping me.

A few days ago, I had a similar problem when I installed a LiteOn Combo drive to replace my cd-rom drive. Basically, the cd-rom is treated as an ide hard drive, but the cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-rom, and dvd-rw drives are treated as scsi drives. The first thing to do is enable scsi emulation.

Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf, /boot/grub/menu.lst, or lilo.conf, whichever you're using. Add this to the end of the kernel line:
max_scsi_luns=1 hdc=ide-scsi

This assumes that you have hda and hdb dedicated to harddrives, and the cd drive is hdc. That will enable scsi emulation.

Next. Edit /etc/fstab. I have this line in mine, and so far, I can play and write cd's with it. I haven't tried dvd's yet.
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

Since I use SuSE, mount points for media are in the /media directory. Adjust to suit your needs.

Create the mount point if it doesn't already exist.
mkdir /media/cdrecorder (in this example).

Finally, edit /dev directory. If you have a previous cd-rom or such device linked to hdc (hdb?), delete it. Make a new link to sr0 (some distros prefer scd0), like so:
ln -s /dev/cdrecorder /dev/sr0
(once again, adjust the names to suit your preferences).

This is one of the few instances in which it's necessary to reboot in Linux. So, reboot, and give it a try.

A few days ago, I had a similar problem when I installed a LiteOn Combo drive to replace my cd-rom drive. Basically, the cd-rom is treated as an ide hard drive, but the cd-r, cd-rw, dvd-rom, and dvd-rw drives are treated as scsi drives. The first thing to do is enable scsi emulation.

Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf, /boot/grub/menu.lst, or lilo.conf, whichever you're using. Add this to the end of the kernel line:
max_scsi_luns=1 hdc=ide-scsi

This assumes that you have hda and hdb dedicated to harddrives, and the cd drive is hdc. That will enable scsi emulation.

Next. Edit /etc/fstab. I have this line in mine, and so far, I can play and write cd's with it. I haven't tried dvd's yet.
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

Since I use SuSE, mount points for media are in the /media directory. Adjust to suit your needs.

Create the mount point if it doesn't already exist.
mkdir /media/cdrecorder (in this example).

Finally, edit /dev directory. If you have a previous cd-rom or such device linked to hdc (hdb?), delete it. Make a new link to sr0 (some distros prefer scd0), like so:
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrecorder (to create the device file link).
(once again, adjust the names to suit your preferences).

This is one of the few instances in which it's necessary to reboot in Linux. So, reboot, and give it a try.

Hi

I've got a similar problem but now I can partly see why it is happening. I have Mandrake 10.1 on DVD and have been trying to install it from that. I also have the same LiteOn DVD RW drive.

It boots OK but can't find the files to do the install. It simply prompts for the floppy with the SCSI drivers on it. It doesn't recognise the DVD except for booting from it (that, I don't understand).

If I put the SCSI drivers onto a floppy (can I copy these from the DVD in Windows?), and where might I find them) and boot from the DVD again then will it work if I supply the floppy with the drivers on when prompted?

I'll try this anyway but any advice in addition to the above would be appreciated. BTW did the person who started this thread install from CD's? - I suppose they must have.

Cheers

Yeah, I installed from CD's. I had a problem like that tonki with my old Mnadrake 9.2 distro. It was a simple matter of rubbing alcohol on the cd's and cleaning them though, I'd try that first before you go on.

And thanks Bigrigdriver, I'll give it a shot.