CDRom2 won't read

[HarryGoiter]

Hi. I'm running MDrake7.0 which is set up to automount my cd drives. One of my cd drives works fine, the other one (/dev/hdc) never wants to read. Trying to access it through /mnt/cdrom2 gives me "bash: cd: cdrom2: Input/Output error" so I try to unmount and remount by "umount /mnt/cdrom2" and then "mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2 -t iso9660" I'm guessing there's something wrong with the iso9660 part of that line but I don't know what it is. In /etc/fstab there's a line that reads "/mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0"--why doesn't this drive read? Thanks.

[stavefan]

greetings,

you may want to try the CLI mount -t auto /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom2. (you may also try the iso9660 in place of the term auto)

also, is hdc a burner?, and if so, is it IDE or SCSI? (Depending on which it is, you may have to configure your system differetly)

stavefan

[HarryGoiter]

hdc is a burner. HP8200 IDE ( wouldn't recomend it :) ) Any ideas as to what I might hafta do to configure my system differently? Thanks for your help.

[slowlearner]

Have you checked the tutorials on Mandrake's site? There is one on IDE burners. Also there was a chmod command that someone on here posted. I used the tutorial plus the command I found on this BBS and now my IDE works fine! If I can find the command for you I will post it.

[stavefan]

You may need to reconfigure your kernel to support SCSI emulation. There is a NHF here that is very excellent in getting you on your way to setting up a burner. You should also, before you do anything, check out the CDWRITING-HOWTO at linuxdocs.org. This will also give you an idea of what you need to do, and if your burner is supported (which it probably is).

I take it that you will want to burn at some point in the future, so these are good tools to find out what goes on under the hood when you set up a burner on a machine.

Good luck and happy learning
stavefan