CDROM won't mount

[paul.shelb]

Hi all

I can't seem to get /dev/cdrom to mount to /mnt/cdrom.

I've tried all the usual mount -t commands, but keep getting "no medium found"

Here's the setup:

RedHat 8.0
is09660 CDROM
/etc/fstab:

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

and yes, there IS a disc in the drive ;)

Can anyone help?

[deathadder]

have you just tried mount /dev/cdrom or mount /mnt/cdrom, i cant think what one it is at the moment but because you have a entry in your fstab you should just be able to use one of those commands and it'll mount the cdrom

also the cdrom does have a valid file structure doesnt it? if its an audio cd then it wont work becasue they dont have a file structure

[Satanic Atheist]

deathadder - you're right that a CDDA will not mount, but it won't produce that error.

I'm guessing that your CDROM is either in the fritz or is the wrong device symlinked to /dev/cdrom.

Can you do ls -l /dev/cdrom and tell us where it's sat on the IDE bus.

James

[paul.shelb]

Yeah I should have added that the first time :)

/dev/cdrom is symlinked to /dev/hdb

perhaps a dodgy IDE cable?

:(

[paul.shelb]

A strange thing happened not long after I posted the first time, it just started working...for a while.

I was trying to install a few more RPMs off the RedHat CDROM and it got about half the way through then it died again

:confused:

[paul.shelb]

I also noticed a few of these lines in the logs:

Nov 25 21:59:39 daniher kernel: hdb: irq timeout:
error=0xd0LastFailedSense 0x0d

Looking more like a hardware issue?

[blobaugh]

I had some problems with my drive once a while ago. I posted here and was told to type depmod -ae. I did it and it works perfect now.