Unable to mount cdrom

[Robert Dege]

I'll answer '?' #2 first since it's easier.  /dev/cdrom,cdrom1,cdrom2 are
nothing more than symlinks to the actual device in /dev.  # ls -l
/dev/cdrom will show you where the sym link is actually pointing to.  To
have your second drive point to /dev/cdrom2, just rename the symlink.

As per question 1....  a few things strike me odd.

1) you say that you have 2 cd-rom drives in your system, yet your fstab
file only reflects one.

2) if you have a cd-burner in your system, it either has to be scsi, or
scsi emulated in order to burn.  I'd check your boot params via lilo.conf,
or grub.conf.  If you do disc2disc copying, then your cdrom will also have
to either be scsi, or require the scs-ide module in order to work with
your burner.

I'm guessing this is a scsi-ide module thing.... especially since your
boot line in lilo.conf/grub.conf won't include the additional params
unless you actually added them after your kernel rebuild.

-Rob


> I do not need rw on my main cdrom drive because it is not a recorder. I
> can burn fine on my second one and I have no problems with that I just
> included that in my question to rule out any problems with cables,MB etc
>
>
> Joe wrote:
> > I'm not an expert, but doesn't the ro mean read only?  Maybe you could
> > try rw or check out the fstab man page.
> >
> > Joe
> >
> > Frank Kumro wrote:
> >
> >> I am currently running slackware 9.1 (kernel 2.4.24) and I am unable
> >> to mount my cdrom drive...at all! I thought it was the cdrom drive
> >> itself so I installed a new one, didnt help. I was wondering if I
> >> forgot to enable something in the kernel because I was able to mount
> >> cdroms with the default kernel that came with slackware. Also I am
> >> able to burn cd's with my second drive perfectly fine. I really dont
> >> know where to start so any help would be great. Also how could I make
> >> it so I can access my second cdrom drive with /dev/cdrom2 ? is it
> >> possible?
> >>
> >> trying to mount a cd
> >>
> >> bash-2.05b# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> >> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> >> mount: No medium found
> >>
> >> my /etc/fstab
> >> /dev/hda3        swap             swap        defaults         0   0
> >> /dev/hda1        /                reiserfs    defaults         1   1
> >> /dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
> >> /dev/fd0         /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner     0   0
> >> devpts           /dev/pts         devpts      gid=5,mode=620   0   0
> >> proc             /proc            proc        defaults         0   0
> >>
> >>
> >> -Frank
> >>
> >
>
>
>



Dege

I'm just not up2date on my al-kee-hol-*hic* lingo
Although, I do have that slurring part down ;)