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Old 05-15-2004, 07:55 AM   #1
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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
I get the following message...

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
all I get is total 0. I have never had problems mounting my cdrom drive before. Is this because I am trying to read from a cd I burned from windows. The disc contains the source code of strace as a .tar.bz2 so this should surely open right? But the thing is audio cds won't even open with the cd player program... I am truely lost with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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
 
Old 05-15-2004, 08:05 AM   #2
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Do you have the CD in the drive before you mount it?
 
Old 05-15-2004, 08:09 AM   #3
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either way I still get the same no media found message. DOes it matter if I have a cd in there first or not?
 
Old 05-15-2004, 08:12 AM   #4
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