greetings !

I've a Windows 2000/Linux Mandrake 8.1 box with 2 CD drives( CDROM and CDRW ) in working condition( under windows ).

I installed Mandrake 8.1. Installation( from the same CDROM ) went like a breeze. But now I'm not able to read anything from my CD's thro' the same drives.

Weird thing is this happens only for Recorded/mp3 cd's. I'm able to play audio CD's thro' the CDROM but not mp3's.

Also, I'm not able to see these files thro' my file manager or even doing an ls in those directories. Here are some output with which some body can throw some light.

Hard-drake
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There is a list of devices. I don't know as why it list 3, where I've only 2 drives.

1) Yamaha CRW4416E
Vendor: Unknown
Model: YAMAHA CRW4416E
Device: /dev/hdd
Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE

2) CRD-8400B
Vendor: Unknown
Model: CRD-8400B
Device: /dev/hdc
Bus Type: ATAPI/IDE

3) Yamaha CRW4416E
Vendor: YAMAHA
Model: CRW4416E
Device: /dev/scd0
Bus Type: SCSI

Directories( under /dev )
--------------------------
$ ls -l cdrom*
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Mar 20 11:10 cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Mar 20 11:10 cdrom0 -> cdroms/cdrom0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Mar 20 11:10 cdrom1 -> cdroms/cdrom1

cdroms:
total 0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 33 Dec 31 1969 cdrom0 -> ../ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
brw------- 1 shankar cdrom 11, 0 Mar 19 13:24 cdrom1


fstab
-----
$ cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda9 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda10 swap swap defaults 0 0
$
$ pwd
/mnt
$ ls
cdrom/ cdrom2/ disk/ floppy/ windows/
$ ls cdrom
$ ls cdrom2
$ ls cdrom
$

-thanks-
shankar.

Right, but do you mount the cds? Plaing music doesn't require mounting.

As far as I can understand:
You can mount CD's
You can hear MP3
You cannot listen and original audio CD's (.cab format)

correct?



I had the same problem two or three weeks ago.

Thru some forum like this one, I can tell you what I've done.

in your fstab:
change the iso type to 9660 like below.
fstab
-----
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso9660,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,iocharset=9660,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0

Place the CD into your hdc for instance:

gtcd --device /mnt/cdrom2

if the drive runs, and you do not hear anything, try with root.

If it works, then add some rights to your user
right: 'audio'.


What I did, I removed the user, and created again.

If it's just a mounting issue, try running KwikDisk (K -> Configuration -> Hardware -> KwikDisk). That puts an icon on your task bar which lets you mount and unmount removable filesystems with the click of a button. Just click the icon to get a list of filesystems, then click on the one you want to mount it. If you click on it again, it unmounts it.

Thanks a lot to all those pitched in. So everyt time do I need to do this with Kwikdisk. Is there a way to automate it so that as I'm in, the CD's should be accessible.

-thanks-
shankar

Supposedly running "supermount -i enable" as root will make changes to your /etc/fstab file so you can do this, but I've never used it. You might want to backup your /etc/fstab first. Not sure if it requires a reboot.

Supermount's not my bag either. I just type mount /dev/hdc and it mounts, but that's because i've added the entry to the aforementioned /etc/fstab. You won't have to reboot, type mount by itself and it should do a mount of everything in fstab.

hi,

Thanks to all of you. KwikDisk did solved the problem without any modification to 'fstab', so I assume that there is nothing wrong in the entries I've in fstab( attached in the thread ). If so, is there an option to automate the mount, I mean do I need to start KwikDisk everytime to mount my drives. How do I make it automatic ?

Thanks again to all those responded.

-shankar.

Maybe I wasn't too clear in my last post... there's a program called supermount that is supposed to automatically mount cd's and floppy's for you. In order to turn it on, you need to run "supermount -i enable" as root. This will make the necessary changes to your /etc/fstab.

However, I have had little luck getting it to work, and I just prefer to do it manually under Linux.