Unable to mount cdrom

[Joe]

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
>

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