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Hi, i wasn't sure where to post this but here goes... i recently installed slackware 9.1 and i managed to mount my cd drive ( i have two, my cdwriter is an ATAPI-CD ROM DRIVE 50 MAX SPEED, and my cd drive is a TEAC CD W54E) hdc is my cd writer and I have no idea what my other cd drive is. I would like both of them mounting and hdc as a cd writer if possible. I have used the following command
Code:
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
and also
Code:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
both have returned the following error, but when i try to use the command, the light on my cd writer flashes as if its trying to read.
Code:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
or too many mounted file systems
I also need some help mounting my NTFS tab, my friend told me that he did it and is using the same version of slackware as me i have been using the following:
Code:
root@soxbox:/dev# mount -t NTFS /dev/hda /mnt/windows
mount: fs type NTFS not supported by kernel
mount: probably you meant ntfs
root@soxbox:/dev# mount -t ntfs /dev/hda /mnt/windows
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda,
or too many mounted file systems
I read somewhere about people asking for the following output, so its here, i hope it helps you to help me, i will be really grateful.
ls -il output
the output was too long to post so it can be found at the following web address (i cant post urls not enough posts)
giz.reloadedhosting.com/lsil.txt
thanks again everyone.
thanks to anyone whos read this and anyone who can help me, i really dont know what im doing wrong. Thanks again.
Mr.Gizm0
I assume you have a CD in the drive when you are mounting it?
You should be able to see which drives are which with:
dmesg | grep "^hd"
Your ntfs partition is probably /dev/hda1 not /dev/hda ("hda" is the drive - "1" is the first partition of that drive). You will also need to use lowercase ntfs.
Last edited by david_ross; 05-09-2004 at 02:30 PM.
thank you for your help, my ntfs partition is now mounted, but I am still having problems with my cd drives (both have audio cds in them at the moment)
i used the "dmesg | grep "^hd"" command and heres the outcome
so i created a new directory for my cd writer in the mnt directory called "cdwriter"
i then tried to mount the devices (both cd drives) and this is what happened (i did add a line for the each the cd devices in fstab).
Code:
root@soxbox:/mnt# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdwriter
/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/hdc: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
root@soxbox:/mnt# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdwriter
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
or too many mounted file systems
root@soxbox:/mnt# mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
/dev/hdd: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/hdd: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
root@soxbox:/mnt# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
or too many mounted file systems
root@soxbox:/mnt#
huh? i can't listen to audio cds then? there are audio cds in my cd drives. It worked for a short time once, i was playing a cd with Xms or whatever its called, then things stopped working. *looks really confused*
you don't mount audio cds or movie dvds. you open up your cd or dvd player software to play them. there is no mounting involved. some players are kscd and xmms. you can also use cd rippers like grip or ripperx to listen to cds.
Hi, after investigation it is xmms I have the problem with there is a cd player in kde that works perfectly (thats for your help) if you insert an audio cd while running xp and look on my computer and click the cd once it gives you "details" one of these is "File system: CDFS" that and not being able to play cds with xmms is what confused me, do i need to do anything with xmms to enable it to let me play audio cds? I clicked "play location" I had an audio cd in hdc and type /dev/hdc, and then ok, nothing happened
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