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my cdrom is asus 52x, in Hardware Browser I see the boldness about my cdrom is :
Driver : none or built in
Device : /dev/hdd
I have tried a lot of way to mounting my cdrom, but always failed , only voice the boisterous rotatory cd. I very surprised and confused because there is no problem when I Playing movie with xine or Mplayer
Result of comand which I do is :
1. [root@localhost root]# mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: Not a directory
2. [root@localhost root]# mount -t cdrom /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: fs type cdrom not supported by kernel
3. [root@localhost root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: Not a directory
4. [root@localhost root]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
/dev/cdrom: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/cdrom: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
5. [root@localhost root]# mount /dev/hdd /dev/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
as stated above, but somewhat danced around, if you cd-rom is /dev/hdd then you, and if the directory /mnt/cdrom exists (to check this type "ls /mnt" and you should it.), you should be able to type:
Code:
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
From there all the files on your cd should be accessable from the /mnt/cdrom directory.
3. because I very confused then I have changed the hdd (secondary slave) to hdc (secondary master) so in "Hardware browser" :
Driver : none or built in
Device : /dev/hdc
and I have tried to used this command but always failed :
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom
And the contents /etc/fstab file continued to not change. I also have tried to click the cdrom icon in desktop (KDE 3.1 ) but I still receive error mesage :
can not find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Finally I changed /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc but in /etc/fstab file
You didn't necessarily need to chang the /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc in your fstab. /dev/cdrom is just a symbolic link to /dev/hdx. Verify this as shown here.
One other thing I noticed in you fstab entry is "owner." If you want all users to be able to mount and unmount the drive, then change that to "users" like this:
I don't know about a VCD, but you cannot mount an audio CD. It sounds to me like that's what you have. That's why it's returning the "not a vaild block device" message.
Audio (music) CD do not need to be mounted to play.
normally just entering mount /dev/cdrom should just work...
are they burnt cd's? ive had some trouble mounting cd's that have been created by direct cd writing as these are written using a different filetype.. (drag and drop bizzo using easy cd creator in windows) ... but with cd's that have been burnt normally with the right iso standards should work...
Originally posted by PhD ive had some trouble mounting cd's that have been created by direct cd writing as these are written using a different filetype..
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