Re: [SLE] Re: Cannot Mount CDROM or CD Recorder

I tried the command 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom", and it worked!! I was able to read the CD. At that point, being totally puzzeled, I re-installed Linux from scratch and the CDROM and CDRecorder are both working. I was able to copy the previously unreadable (or at least un-mountable) CD to my hard disk and then to burn a new copy. All appears to be OK. Many thanks to the people who responded to my request for help. This problem is evidently fixed. John On Thursday 26 February 2004 10:11, John Pettigrew wrote:

In a previous message, John Graddy wrote:

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When I insert an audio disk in the CD R/W drive, The icon changes to that of a music disk, kscd is launched and the status displayed is 'ejected'.  When I click on the play button in the kscd window, nothing happens.

AIUI, kscd only looks at one of your drives - /dev/cdrom by default, I think. So, if your CDROM drive is empty, kscd will display an "empty"/"ejected" message regardless of what's in the CDRW. This isn't terribly helpful if it's auto-launched when a music CD is placed in the CDRW drive!

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Data CD

When I insert the CD into the CD R/W drive nothing apparent happens. When I click the Icon, the disk srive is active for a few seconds and then I get an error report - "Could not mount device /dev/cdrecorder  Inout output error. mount: I could not determine the file system type, and none was specified".

Can't really help with this one, but you'll need (at least) to post the contents of your /etc/fstab file. One thing to try is inserting a CD and (as root) issuing 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom' - this specifies the filesystem, which seems to be what is not being found. However, I doubt this will work and you'll need to dig deeper. But check that the CDs you're trying to mount are valid data CDs (e.g. access them on a different computer using Windows or linux - Macs can use a different CD format so avoid them at this point).

John