CDROM won't Mount..

I added this line to fstab and now the CD attempts to mount, but it comes back with the error:

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom or too many mounted file systems

This is the line I added to fstab:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,ro 0 0

Any thoughts on this?
Thanks,
Hoss

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0

Which Mepis do you have installed? I believe in the 2003.10 one that the cdrom is mounted in /mnt/removable/cdrom not /mnt/cdrom. I'm using the b3 one and there is no removable folder in the /mnt directory anymore.

Sorry about that, I am running 2003.10 and I tried the fstab fix recommended above to no avail...though it did seem to spin the drive a little longer :roll:

Any other thoughts?
Hoss

look in your /dev folder, then put your mouse over the device that says cdrom. Does it say something like this in the statusbar, when your mouse is over it:

cdrom->/dev/hdc

The hdc is for my system, your's could say sd0 or something else. The /dev/cdrom is supposed to be a symbolic link to the real device in your /dev folder.

are you trying to mount an audio CD? if so, you will get an error. audio cd's don't need to be mounted, you can just play them. on any further error, check that you're a member of the group that owns the cd device.

charlie

It indicates dev/scd0 which lookes like a blank file when I open it in KEdit. I assume that there should be something in this file?

This happens to be a data CD. Haven't even tried an audio. Checked that I have the correct permissions.

Also noticed that the file "cdrom" in /dev is a 0 byte file...I would assume that there should be something in it?

More poking around in the /dev shows that all the cdrom and scd* files are 0 bytes...

Things that make you go "hmmmmmm"

Hoss

Do you have kde 3.2.2? There is a program in your kmenu that is called kdiskfree. If you open that and right click on cdrom there is a choice called mount. Mount it, then right click the cdrom again and choose browse in file manager. Or you could then open up your file manager separately and browse the /mnt/cdrom folder. You can only mount with kdiskfree if there is a data cd in it.

When I attempt to mount the disk I get the following error:

Called: mount /dev/cdrom<br />
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,<br />
or too many mounted file systems

This has been the issue all along, I can't get the CDROM to mount, and there is a data cd in it.

Thanks,
Hoss

Do you have more than one cdrom drive? I have a cd/rw and a dvdrom now but when I also had my usb dvdwriter hooked up to my machine I used to get the same errors. Try taking off the /mnt 's for all your cdroms in your fstab. Reboot and then try kdiskfree or mount partitions program.

The reason I say this: Hardware detection should find your cdroms and add them to your fstab for you so that it is correct. Hopefully!

Well that was a wash...any other ideas?
They don't show up in KdiskFree and in Mount I get the error:

 No file exists 

Hmmmmm,
Hoss

This is getting annoying...I know that there must be a simple fix for this cd issue but I can't seem to get my head around it. Plus it's not looking good for a system wide linux migration here anytime in the near future...ack....

On the up side, I have installed Mepis at home (2003:10) and love it! It seems much faster and less of a resource hog than WinXP and there is nothing that I need that is missing (except for the cdrom thing, same issue at home, but I wasn't surprized since the boxes are configured the same).

I have considered a re-install but that seems a kluggy way to handle small issues like this.?? Is there anyway to manually force a new hardware detection? Other than deleting the entries in fstab and rebooting...tried that.

Thanks,

A hooked MEPIS user,

Hoss

What type of cdrom drive are you using? Plus, how is it hooked up to your computer?

The CDRW is attached as master to IDE-2 with the CDROM as slave on the same cable. The confusing part of this is the Live CD picked both of them up with no issues and on boot I see them listed as having been detected.

Thanks for the Help!
Hoss

I have my CDRW as master on IDE-2 with my DVDRom as the slave and both of mine are recognized on boot and I'm able to burn cd's on my CDRW and play audio cds on both. Plus read data cds on both. I would think that you should be able to too because you seem to have the same setup as me, just you have a second cdrom and I have the dvdrom as slave.

Have you checked your ide cables on your drives and the motherboard to make sure they are securely in place? You could even try unhooking the second cdrom drive and seeing if the master is accessible after. If it is, then the problem could be the second cdrom. Or you could also try having just the slave cdrom hooked up without the cdrw and see if the cdrw has a hardware problem.

Since you have tried editing fstab correctly, tried kdiskfree and that didn't work either, it could be that either your drives are not properly secured (ide ribbon wise) or one of the cdroms is defective.

All ribbons are secure and both drives are functional in XP (I kept the old HD). I can read write to the CDROM and the read the CD with no issues.

Perhaps there is something I missed in editing the fstab?
Is there any way to force autoHareware dection?

There must be something I missed here.

OK, I realized that I did not try the CD's independantly...when I attempted it, it was very interesting...They show up as SCD0 and are mountable. Now to get them working together and then to get the CDRW working correctly...at least we are getting somewhere!

CBlue, thanks for all the help here!

Hoss

I'm glad you tried it! It never hurts to try everything you can before giving up. If your problem isn't software related, it could be hardware and vice versa.

Any thoughts now on how to get both the CDROM and the CDRW working at the same time?

Also when I attempt to play a music CD it tells me that there is no /mnt/cdrom file....

Another question for forensic purposes, any idea why this happened? I need to figure out how to work around this issue for my report to the IS manager about the usability of Mepis for our company.

Thanks,

Hoss

I wish I could help you further but I never experienced the problem you are having. I hope someone who knows the answer to your problem will read your post and help you out.

check the dma settings, it is an unlikely cause but I've had troubles with this on one occasion.
Liz

I realize this response is way late, but for those of you wondering what the answer to the question is...

The answer is in the mount statement. You incorrectly told the system to mount the device only as UDF or as iso9660. This will only work if the CD actually had one of those filesystem types on it, and will fail in all other cases.

A disk may in fact have a different F/S on it. So, it's always best to leave the F/S determination and mounting up to the O/S.

The correct fstab entry should be:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,users,ro 0 0

Leaving it "auto" will allow the O/S to figure it out for itself...

/Les