mounting a cdrom drive...
hey,
I am having trouble mounting a cdrom drive. I am running red hat 9 on a dell laptop and when I type the command (as root of course) Code:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read only mount: No medium found But when I put in a cd and type Code:
ls -l /mnt/cdrom Oh my /etc/fstab contains... LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 /swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 and my /etc/mtab contains.... /dev/hda2 / ext3 rw 0 0 none /proc proc rw 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0 /dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0 you might notice that there is no mention of a cdrom drive in my /etc/mtab file. Can anyone see anything from any of this. It is driving me mad! Pease help!!!.... Gearóid |
What do you have in the CD drive?
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it never seems to matter. Whether I mount it with no cd in the drive or with a cd in the drive I still get the same mount: no media found message...
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You need to have a CD in the drive and make sure it is a data CD and not a music CD.
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but would the fact that I burned the cd in windows make a difference? Would it configure the cd in such a way that Linux couldn't read it?
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It depends - what format did you burn it in? If you used the iso standard then there shouldn't be a problem.
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oh, I dunno. I am having other problems too. It seems to hang forever at the boot screen even before grub loads (at the Press F2 to enter setup stage) and even when I try to eject a cd (either by pressing the button on the door or by typing eject -r) it takes all day. Would you recommend I just install slackware 9.1 and start over?? I know there is always a huge debate over this "what's the best distro" topic, but what do you think? I don't know enough about Linux to try and start trying to figure all of these problems out....
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ok, last post about this I swear!!..... :) But just to say that I swapped the cdrom drive for a cdr drive and now it works. So it must just have been a hardware problem afterall...
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But yes you do need a cd in the drive
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when you burned your CD in Windows you did not close the session of the cd.
So your problem was solved by installing a CDR driver because CDR-Drives can read not closed cd's. When you want to read a cd in a regular cdrom you must have closed the sessions of the cd. |
I too have the /dev/cdrom but instead of that I have to mount /dev/sr0 to get my cd-rom work properly. Because my CD-ROM is registered as an scsi device, it must be mounted so...
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