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

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

* Jos? Luis G?mez Dans (j.l.gomez-dans [at] sheffield.ac.uk) wrote:
> Hi,
> 	I have just been in need of using a CD-Rom, and found that I had
> forgotten to compile the kernel with support for it... oh well, a chance
> to install 2.2.19, I said, got the file and compiled. To my amazement, I
> keep on getting strange errors. Here's a sample session
> # mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /mnt
> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
> cdrom: open failed.
> mount: No medium found

What are the permissions on the cdrom device?

(20:01:39)(richlowe)($)-> ls -l /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd 
brw-rw-rw-    1 root     root      22,   0 Jan  1  1970 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd

(using devfs)

I cant think where the "cdrom: open failed" is coming from, unless you
dont have read access to the device, but I dont think thats it.
and the other, slightly more obvious point, there is a disk in the drive
right? although that shouldnt cause the "cdrom: open failed" part.







-- 
|*-------------------=[ Richard Lowe ]=------------------*|
| richlowe [at] btinternet.com                   UIN: 74724348 |           
|*-------------------------------------------------------*|
| Europe has the Kilogram and the Meter.                  |
| America has the Pound and the Inch.                     |
| Childrens TV has the Elephant and the Double Decker Bus |
|*-------------------------------------------------------*|
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Sheffield Linux User's Group - http://www.sheflug.co.uk
To unsubscribe from this list send mail to
- <sheflug-request [at] vuw.ac.nz> - with the word 
 "unsubscribe" in the body of the message. 

  GNU the choice of a complete generation.