Mandrake 9.0 will not mount cdrom

taguato · 09-06-2004, 10:26 PM

Hi everyone!

Mandrake 9.0 will not mount my cd-rom. On the X window, it just sits there saying "mounting cd rom..." for ever. I tried doing it from a terminal with "mount /mnt/cdrom", and it also just sits there without giving me the prompt back. I am using kde.

If I try "umount /mnt/cdrom" it tells me that the unit is not mounted.

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,

Luis

motub · 09-07-2004, 09:07 AM

1) What kind of CD are you attempting to mount (audio, data, PhotoCD)? Have you tried another CD, or type of CD?

2) Can you mount this or any other CD as root rather than as a user?

3) Have you tried mounting (both as a user and as root) with a full command such as mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom (your device designation may well be different)?

4) Would you please post the contents of the file /etc/fstab?

taguato · 09-07-2004, 10:15 PM

Answers:

1) What kind of CD are you attempting to mount (audio, data, PhotoCD)? Have you tried another CD, or type of CD?
-- Data CDs

2) Can you mount this or any other CD as root rather than as a user?
--- No. I tried.

3) Have you tried mounting (both as a user and as root) with a full command such as mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom (your device designation may well be different)?
-- No. Only "mount /mnt/cdrom"

4) Would you please post the contents of the file /etc/fstab?
-- Unfortunately, the computer with the problem is at work.

But at any rate, I solved teh problem (after reading comments of someone on the net who also had problems with his CD reader and Mandrake), getting rid of KDE and using Gnome, instead. It has been working fine all today after I did that. So far, at least. Weird, isn't? You would think that these desktop manager just would issue the same commands in the background, but clearly, they do more than that.

Thanks anyway.

Luis

taguato · 09-08-2004, 10:31 PM

Hey, even after changing to gnome, cd reader still acting up sometimes and I have to re-boot to get it to work. here is my fstab, just in case:

Code:

/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

Thanks,

Luis

mimithebrain · 09-08-2004, 11:21 PM

it's should read
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0,automount

before trying it, someones goning to have to correct me
I think the correct iso is 9660, exec should be allowed
everything else seam just fine to me

try using the drakconf utility first