Here is the output when I give the command you suggested: neamcd@linux:~> ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 24 11:23 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc Thursday 25 April 2002 00:17, Mads Martin Jørgensen wrote:

* neal mcdermott [Apr 25. 2002 02:27]:

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Hi All,

Just installed 8.0. on a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, and it has recognized my IDE CDRW, which is good, since 7.3 was unable to, but when I click on the CD icon on the KDE desktop, I get the error message:

Could not mount device. The reported error was: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error

mount: I could not determine the filesystem and none was specified.

What does the command:

ls -l /dev/cdrom

give as output?

Please, Please, jump in at any time. Thanks for your help, I will try it. Neal On Thursday 25 April 2002 10:15, Keith Winston wrote:

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:31:01AM -0700, neal mcdermott wrote:

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Here is the output when I give the command you suggested: neamcd@linux:~> ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 24 11:23 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

Sorry to jump into this thread in the middle.

SuSE 8.0 set up the link incorrectly since you have an IDE CD-RW. The link should be to /dev/sr0. You can fix it, as root, with:

rm /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom

I just had to do the same with mine. Also, if you want to burn CDs as a user instead of root, go ahead and make it world writable...

chmod a+rw /dev/sr0

And, if you want to rip CDs using grip, do this too...

chmod a+rw /dev/sg0

Best Regards, Keith

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:55:06PM +0300, Togan Muftuoglu wrote:

I do not understand why do you want to give read write acces to world. I would imagine placing the user in group disk will sove the problem

Actually, that would not work on a default 8.0 since the group disk only has read access, not write access. If you are really worried about security, a better solution would be to add the user to the disk group AND give the disk group write access to /dev/sr0. It is good you notice the details, Togan. Keep me honest ;) Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ I am sig, and I live! Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net

On Thursday 25 April 2002 23:08, neal mcdermott wrote:

mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified.

What kind of disk do you have in the drive? Anders

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 02:24:14PM -0700, neal mcdermott wrote:

It is a Data CD I have burned with a bunch of mp3s on it.

Neal

Neal, What program did you use to burn that CD? Do other CDs work besides that one, for example, can you mount one of the SuSE install CDs? Here is what is in my /etc/fstab, please compare to yours... /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 Here are my links for thos two device, please compare to yours... 19:07:00 $ l /dev/cdrecorder lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 23 19:41 /dev/cdrecorder -> /dev/sr0 19:04:02 $ l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Apr 25 11:14 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sr0 Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net

On Friday 26 April 2002 01:53, neal mcdermott wrote:

all but the music CDs worked fine. This I can live with.

I'm afraid you'll have to. Mounting music CDs has never worked. They don't have file systems on them.

Oh, one last question. When an issue is solved like this, can I just append the word solved to the subject line, or is that starting a new thread?

No, that's what appears to be the trend so that's what you should do. Anders

On Friday 26 April 2002 03:14, Keith Winston wrote:

On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 01:37:52AM +0200, Anders Johansson wrote:

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Oh, one last question. When an issue is solved like this, can I just append the word solved to the subject line, or is that starting a new thread?

No, that's what appears to be the trend so that's what you should do.

Anders

As Anders said, it is good netiquette to post the final resolution with the subject and a [SOLVED] either at the beginning or end. Helps people searching the archives for solutions :)

Best Regards, Keith

Okay, so this was the problem: Just installed 8.0. on a Dell Inspiron 3500 laptop, and it has recognized my IDE CDRW, which is good, since 7.3 was unable to, but when I click on the CD icon on the KDE desktop, I get the error message: Could not mount device. The reported error was: /dev/cdrom: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem and none was specified. One difference from the 7.3 install is, this time, instead of only one icon appearing on the KDE, there are two icons appearing on the Desktop for the same drive. In addition to the aforementioned CD ROM icon, there is also an icon labelled: CD-R. When I click on this one, I get the same message, only instead of reporting the error as /dev/cdrom: input/output, it reports it as /dev/cdrecorder: Input/output. And this was the response from Keith Winston. SuSE 8.0 set up the link incorrectly since you have an IDE CD-RW. The

link should be to /dev/sr0. You can fix it, as root, with:

rm /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom

I just had to do the same with mine. Also, if you want to burn CDs as a user instead of root, go ahead and make it world writable...

chmod a+rw /dev/sr0

And, if you want to rip CDs using grip, do this too...

chmod a+rw /dev/sg0

So that fixed the problem, but didn't know it yet because I still could not click on the CD icons on the desktop and see the contents of the disk. The next response came from Anders Johansson who asked what sort of disk I was trying to open. It turned out to be a music disk, which he informed me cannot be mounted because it has no filesystem. So I tried other CDs, both the setup CDs from SuSE and data CDRs and CDRWs that I had made myself, and they all worked. Thanks again to all who responded. Neal