Commands. I'm still trying to get X working...but that's another problem for another day I was actually trying to mount a data cd that I had burned (although I had also (just for fun!) tried to mount an audio cd and, as you said, it failed...)

-pi314159

I'm not supposed to format the CD or anything, am I? I have burned CDs before, but always through a GUI (in Windows, no less), not through the command line, so there could be many, many processes and options I never got to see.

Thanks!

-pi314159

you could post the commands you typed in (to write the CDs and to mount them), pi314159,
...maybe we can see why aren't you able to mount them
Regards

...as root:
cdreord -eject dev=0,0,0 data_file
*then I put the disk back in*
mount /cdrom
(I can mount other data cds, like the Slack cds and some that I burned on another computer... ?)
Oh, there's a new error message on bootup... says that /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device. ??

My fstab entry for the cdrom drive (in case it has some bearing on this):

/cdrom /dev/cdrom iso9660 users 0 0
(I may not have the 4th column quite right; I'm doing this from memory.)

and /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to /dev/scd0

Thank you for your time!

-pi314159

I always make an iso first, then burn the iso to the CD-R

I'll try that...but I still wonder why it couldn't mount the normal data cds it burned.

-pi314159

ok, whilst i am searching more on forums,what is different with ide-scsi under 2.4.2x kernel and kerne

2.6 mounts with same cd-rw-as
whilst i mount them with ease on 2.4
2.6 wants something else on mount.
i wander what must i say to mount cdrw normal under 2.6 kernel?ide-scsi: unsup command: dev hdc:


dmesg gives:


flags = REQ_SOFTBARRIER REQ_CMD REQ_STARTED
sector 0, nr/cnr 1/1
bio dffc9140, biotail dffc9140, buffer c7798000, data 00000000, len 0
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
FAT: unable to read boot sector
ide-scsi: unsup command: dev hdc: flags = REQ_CMD REQ_STARTED
sector 64, nr/cnr 2/2
bio dffc97c0, biotail dffc97c0, buffer c7798000, data 00000000, len 0
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=32
ide-scsi: unsup command: dev hdc: flags = REQ_CMD REQ_STARTED
sector 64, nr/cnr 2/2
bio dffc9300, biotail dffc9300, buffer d9d10000, data 00000000, len 0
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=32

so i need to boot 2.6 without ide-scsi?

so ,never mind

solution is easy-
just do not add "append=hdc=ide-scsi" to 2.6 and all is ok.
this hdc=...is needed only for 2.4xx kernels.

I tried one more thing: using the disk-at-once option, on the off-chance that it didn't want to read disks that hadn't been finalized. No luck. It's burning the disks and everything, I just can't read them. I've tried a couple different brands of CD-R, also. Thoughts?

-pi314159