Re: [Sheflug] CD-ROM woes...

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 06:38:50PM +0100, Jos? Luis G?mez Dans wrote:
> # mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /mnt
> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
> cdrom: open failed.
> mount: No medium found

Did you keep the old kernel kicking around? Have you tried testing the
CD-ROM with that? Did you also compile in all the fs extensions (joliet et
al)?

> which looks correct to me. Can anyone suggest anything/anywhere to look
> for casualties?

strace the mount command, see which system call fails. Check the cables to
the cdrom.

Also, there was at one stage a bug in ide-cd which locked the hardware
after a failed mount - reboot the machine, making sure the cdrom isn't
automatically mounted on startup, and try a mount, see what happens.

What has happened to you shouldn't happen :-)

Cheers,

Alex.
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