I have an audio CD, which I want to play on my computer. For some reason I cannot mount the drive that it is in. I get the error:

Called: mount /dev/hda
/dev/hda: Input/output error
mount: /dev/hda: can't read superblock

I am also trying to burn a copy of the CD (at a different time) and it seems to be taking a long time. It does read the CD (through K3B, not Konqueror).

Any ideas as to why this is happening?

Ryan

For whatever reason, in my experience, you don't mount audio cds. But if you open it in a cd player like KsCD it should play.

If it's taking a long time to rip/copy the disc, then the disc probably has errors on it that cdparanoia is trying to correct. Try going into the Advanced tab of the cd copy window of K3b and dropping the paranoia mode down to 2. You may not get an exact copy by etree.org standards, but there shouldn't be any noticeable problems with your copy unless the errors on the source discs are really bad, in which case there's no helping it...

Hope this helps.

Could you post your /etc/fstab so we can take a look at it?
It's very unusual to have a Cd drive as the primary master (hda).

/dev/hdc1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdc6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom2 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom3 auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc5 swap swap defaults 0 0

Looking at your /etc/fstab, e.g.

/dev/hda /mnt/cdrom auto umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,noauto,ro,exec,users 0 0

iocharset=iso8859-1 is the vfat character set for converting between 8-bit characters and 16-bit Unicode characters. The usual filesystem for a cdrom is iso9660. Unless you have a very good reason for writing CD-R's as vfat, I would stick to iso9660, replacing iocharset=iso8859-1 with iso9660 for each Cd drive in your /etc/fstab. This ought to improve write speed.

From the hardware point of view, you don't say which of your CD drives you are trying to write to, but IMO a CD Writer is better set as master than slave for optimum performance.

You can't 'mount' an audio CD. It contains no filesystem as such.

The fstab file applies only to media containing a filesystem - eg, hard drive, data CD's / DVD's. It will have no bearing on ability to play back audio CD's.

Is your cd cdrive on the same cable as your hard drive. In some cases this can cause some slowness when reading from one and writing to the other.