Ok here is my problem. When I try to mount the cdr-rw or floppy i get the message: wrong fs type, bad option,bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or to many mounted file system.

I have install RH 7.2 and i can not get my cdr-rw or floppy to work. i Have read the linux books, i have followed the instructions on HOW TO INSTALL a IDE CD-WRITER and i thought i was doing it right but i still have the problem. I can type eject cdrom and the tray opens. I can tpye: mount cdrom and the tray will close. But when i put a cd-rw disk in i get that message.

When I boot up the computer sees the cdr-rw as the Secondary master on HDC. When i tpye cdrecord -scanbus i get this:

0,0,0 0)'SONY ''CD-RW CRX185E1 ''XYS2' Removable CD-ROM.

Here is my etc/lilo.conf:
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
lba32

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
append="hdc=ide-scsi"

Here is my etc/fstab:
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 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
/dev/scd /mnt/cdrom auto defaults,ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
pc_host:/images /images nfsdefaults,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 1 1

HERE is my etc/mtab:
/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
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0

Here is my etc/modules.conf
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 8139too
alias sound-slot-0 cmpci
post-install sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -L >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
pre-remove sound-slot-0 /bin/aumix-minimal -f /etc/.aumixrc -S >/dev/null 2>&1 || :
alias usb-controller usb-ohci
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi

I am hoping that someone out there in linux land can help me.

Thank Randy

What command are you issuing to mount either CD or floppy? Plus in you /etc/fstab there are one and a half devices point to the same mount point. What I mean by 1 and a half is that line
/dev/scd isn't valid, it should be followed by a number 0 through whatever, can you post the part of dmesg where it gets to initializing your devices, particularly CD-R/RW. It is a single CD-R/RRW w/o a regular CD-ROM setup, am I correct?

first of all let me say thanks for helping me. In my etc/fstab it is /dev/scd0. I must have deleted it when i was posting the message. Sorry about that. The command i am using to try to mount is : mount /mnt/cdrom. Or i try using the GROME Foot Menus. I will try to post the dmesg. I really dont understand what you mean about the single CD-R/RRW w/o a regular CD-ROM setup???

/var/log/messages:
Nov 14 07:41:00 pc_host syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Nov 14 07:41:00 pc_host syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Nov 14 07:41:00 pc_host syslog: klogd startup succeeded
Nov 14 07:41:00 pc_host kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Nov 14 07:41:00 pc_host kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map-2.4.7-10
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host portmap: portmap startup succeeded
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Loaded 15331 symbols from /boot/System.map-2.4.7-10.
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.4.7.
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Loaded 227 symbols from 12 modules.
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Linux version 2.4.7-10 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6 16:46:36 EDT 2001
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffec000 (usable)
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ffec000 - 000000001ffef000 (ACPI data)
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ffef000 - 000000001ffff000 (reserved)
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host portmap[697]: user rpc not found, reverting to user bin
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: On node 0 totalpages: 131052
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: zone(0): 4096 pages.
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: zone(1): 126956 pages.
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: zone(2): 0 pages.
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Found and enabled local APIC!
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=302 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 hdc=ide-scsi
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host nfslock: rpc.statd startup succeeded
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host rpc.statd[725]: Version 0.3.1 Starting
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Initializing CPU#0
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host rpc.statd[725]: Warning: You should really create user rpcuser
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Detected 1410.301 MHz processor.
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host rpc.statd[725]: Cannot access current directory after dropping privs: access()
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Calibrating delay loop... 2811.49 BogoMIPS
Nov 14 07:41:01 pc_host kernel: Memory: 510672k/524208k

Here is /var/log/dmesg:

Linux version 2.4.7-10 (bhcompile@stripples.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.1 2.96-98)) #1 Thu Sep 6 16:46:36 EDT 2001
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffec000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffec000 - 000000001ffef000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffef000 - 000000001ffff000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000001ffff000 - 0000000020000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
On node 0 totalpages: 131052
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126956 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Kernel command line: auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=302 BOOT_FILE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 1410.315 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 2811.49 BogoMIPS
Memory: 510672k/524208k available (1279k kernel code, 11084k reserved, 91k data, 232k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000, vendor = 2
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 256K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff c1c7fbff 00000000 00000000
CPU: AMD Athlon(TM)Processor stepping 04
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf1170, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent
PCI: Using IRQ router ALI [10b9/1533] at 00:07.0
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Simple Boot Flag extension found and enabled.
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x0b (Driver version 1.14)
Starting kswapd v1.8
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.5.0 initialized
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10d
block: queued sectors max/low 339077kB/208005kB, 1024 slots per queue
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz PCI bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 20
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:04.0. Please try using pci=biosirq.
ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
hda: MAXTOR 6L040J2, ATA DISK drive
hdc: SONY CD-RW CRX185E1, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: 78177792 sectors (40027 MB) w/1818KiB Cache, CHS=4866/255/63
ide-floppy driver 0.97
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
ide-floppy driver 0.97
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 319k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 232k freed
Adding Swap: 1044216k swap-space (priority -1)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:02.0
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe08b2000, IRQ 9
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:02.0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
PCI: Found IRQ 9 for device 00:06.0
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xe08b4000, IRQ 9
usb-ohci.c: usb-00:06.0, Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (#2)
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-ohci.c: v5.2:USB OHCI Host Controller Driver
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.8, 25 Aug 2001 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-RW CRX185E1 Rev: XYS2
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02

Put a data CD into the drive and try
mount -tiso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
does it get mounted?

Good Morning..

Ok I put in a NEW CD-RW and i type the following command:

mount -tiso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom

And this is the message i got:
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only, or too many mounted files systems

randy

Man this is DRIVING ME CRAZY...Everything else works fine

Hold on, you are mounting an empty CD-RW (media)? Well guys correct me if I am wrong there is no way you can do this, there is nothing on the media, glitch.... And the warning message you posted looks like a hybrid of warning message "block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only" which is ok and an error message "or too many mounted files systems", which is not. So what is it you are trying to accomplish? Talk to us. And what is DRIVING YOU CRAZY, and "Everything else works fine"?

Again thanks:

Ok when i put in cd-rw with data on it into the tray and the tray close, a icon appears on my screen of the cdrom and the cd-rw window opens and shows what is on the cd-rw..BUT when i try to put info onto the cd-rw disk ( i copy my fstab) and try to put it on the disk...I get a message: Error while copying to /mnt/cdrom....the destination disk is read-only.

But the disk is a cd-rw disk.

And also i am not sure why i have two cdroms listed in my fstab since i have only the SONY CD-R/RW on my computer.

AGIAN thanks for your help.

Randy

Dont you have to have a certain program to do the Read Write part of the RW process. I mean you can just hve an always open session waiting to burn to the cd.

Just some FYI:
You can't mount a blank CD.

linux doesn't support packet writing to CDRW's yet i.e. Copying files to the CDRW without using a CD writing program. You will need to use an application to write CD's like xcdroast, gcombust or similar.

Thought so.