Hello everyone who loves linux! I am brand new to linux, and I don't really know how to do anything yet! I am having a huge problem with my cd drives,though. I had no problem during the install, but now that linux is running, the cd drives refuse to work with any other cd's than the suse disks! I can't even get a music cd to play...everytime i try to mount the cd drives, i get an error that tells me there is no such directory as dev/cdrom. I have a plextor cd burner, and an artec 56x cdrom drive. If anyone can tell me how to fix this problem I would appreciate it a whole lot. Hopefully when i get all of the bugs worked out, I can join all of you who love linux! My email address is nobuffet_04@hotmail.com Thanks Alot, Josh T. _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 17:48 pm, Josh Tabor wrote:
Hello everyone who loves linux! I am brand new to linux, and I don't really know how to do anything yet! I am having a huge problem with my cd drives,though. I had no problem during the install, but now that linux is running, the cd drives refuse to work with any other cd's than the suse disks! I can't even get a music cd to play...everytime i try to mount the cd drives, i get an error that tells me there is no such directory as dev/cdrom. I have a plextor cd burner, and an artec 56x cdrom drive. If anyone can tell me how to fix this problem I would appreciate it a whole lot. Hopefully when i get all of the bugs worked out, I can join all of you who love linux! My email address is nobuffet_04@hotmail.com
Thanks Alot, Josh T.
For music CD's, you do not mount them. Just put them in and use kscd (for example) to play it. Only data CD's are mounted. Also, if you're system didn't setup well for burning CD's, download the latest cdrtools and install it/them and you should be able to burn CD's without a hitch. John
On Tuesday 11 February 2003 6:48 pm, Josh Tabor wrote:
Hello everyone who loves linux! I am brand new to linux, and I don't really know how to do anything yet! I am having a huge problem with my cd drives,though. I had no problem during the install, but now that linux is running, the cd drives refuse to work with any other cd's than the suse disks! I can't even get a music cd to play...everytime i try to mount the cd drives, i get an error that tells me there is no such directory as dev/cdrom. I have a plextor cd burner, and an artec 56x cdrom drive. If anyone can tell me how to fix this problem I would appreciate it a whole lot. Hopefully when i get all of the bugs worked out, I can join all of you who love linux! My email address is nobuffet_04@hotmail.com
Thanks Alot, Josh T. Josh, First, you don't mount an audio cd, you just play it with a cd player. like kscd. See if you can do this first because the rest may not apply.
Second, what is the command you are using to mount the cd's? Are you using a shortcut on the desktop or doing it manually? from your message it seems like your using >mount dev/cdrom which wouldn't make sense unless your pwd is /. Try mount /media/cdrom, or mount /dev/cdrom. Also because you have a cdrw and a cdrom, /dev/cdrom might be the cdrecorder and /dev/cdrom1 might be the cdrom, so try it with both drives. Third, because you have a burner you probably have scsi emulation enabled, which is necessary for burning. There's a flaw in 8.1 with the symbolic links like /dev/cdrecorder, which usually point to the wrong place. I'm guessing your /dev/cdrecorder points /dev/hdc( or b or d), instead of /dev/sr0,(or 1 ...). (Depending on the setup of your drives, master or slave, ide0 or 1) To check this do a ls -l /dev/cdr*, and post the info. Most likely you'll have to do a ln-sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrecorder. But first make sure you do have scsi emulation. Check /var/log/boot.msg for something like : <4>hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache <6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 <4>scsi: limiting sg entries to 204 <6>scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: TDK Model: CDRW5200B Rev: 67U2 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Post some info about your drive cable setup so you get the right info for the symbolic links. Also some information about how and what you were doing when it didn't work. Franklin
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