problem mounting cd+dvd rom drives in RH9
hey all,
I'm running red hat 9 and I've been having trouble mounting my cd and DVD rom drives. Once I click on "cd rom" or "CD ROM 1" under the 'DISKS' menu, I hear the drives spinning up but am unable to browse their contents(all i see is a blank window with the device name in the title bar). Infact, my DVD drive produces an alternating sound as though it were spinning up and then spinning down repeatedly. Also, I noticed a lot of hard drive activity while this goes on. On a couple of occasions I managed to browse a cd by ejecting it and putting it back in again. I am clueless as to what's going on....can someone please help me out? I dont think the problem is with my drives since they work fine under Win 2k. Thanks in advance for any help ! pk my system info: Dual Boot of Red Hat 9 and Win 2k Athlon XP1700+ 512 megs RAM 40 GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP (for win2k) + 40 GB Samsung SpinPoint SP0411 (linux) 128 MB GeForce 3 Ti200 Creative SoundBlaster Live! MP3+ LG CD-RW GCE8400B Liteon 16X DVD rom |
what does it says in /etc/fstab ?
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this is what /etc/fstab looks like
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/hdb3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 |
try this, tell me if this work or not:
put your cd into the cdrom on your terminal, login as root: su - then type: mount cdrom then check to see if any files in that folder by typing: ls /mnt/cdrom |
nope it didnt work....
[root@modemcable021 prashant]# mount cdrom mount: can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab |
ok...ur mount is not recongizing fstab. try this see if it works (backup your orginal code first):
/mnt/cdrom /dev/cdrom, fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 then do the whole mount thing again |
it worked!!! i was able to mount both cdrom drives and access their contents. thanks a million for the help!
pk |
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