Unable to mount cdrom

[Frank Kumro]

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
>>
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