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Old 10-20-2002, 02:36 AM   #1
packman
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Unhappy plz help me with the problem entering /mnt/cdrom


After I mount (or automatically) I can't go to mnt/cdrom directory. When I try it on graphic user interface (?) I get a message that I don't have right even though permission says evenone have access to that directory. When I try it on console, I get a message "bash: cd: cdrom: Input/output error."
I tried it as root, but result is not good as well. When I try it as root on GUI, I can open but nothing in the directory, and on console as root, I get same message "input and output error"
Weird thing is that it doesn't happen all the time. It only happens when CDs, that contain music files, is in CD-ROM. If CD contains other files like text or even video, then I can open it. And even though I can't open mnt/cdrom, I can listen musics using CD players.
Any idea why it happens? Is it problem, or it's done by purpose I don't know about?

The reason why I ask this is that I like to copy musics from CDs so I don't have to carry around CDs (it's laptop).

Thank you

p.s. sorry if I misused terminal words.
 
Old 10-20-2002, 04:38 AM   #2
trickykid
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That's your problem right there, you can't mount non-data cd's, example, music cd's, dvds.. etc, cause there isn't any sort of filesystem for it to be able to read from.

BTW, this is mentioned all the time, a quick search and you would have found many threads with other members who asked this very same thing. In fact, it was asked yesterday I do believe.
 
Old 10-20-2002, 12:09 PM   #3
packman
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ahh ic ic.. sorry I should have searched before post. I usually do... (I swear mom I usually do! Sleepness made me lazy! )
Yes there are many posts about it.. (although yesterday's was not same) From what I read I realized that it was done by purpose but I failed to see exactly for what purpose they made it that way.... Is it to protect the copy right of musics maybe? Is it hard (of course hard for me but I mean for very experienced users ) to change it so it will display music files in CDs?

Thanks and again my apology for not checking before posting.
 
  


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