Confusing Cd mounting problem

[Meester Woowis]

I cannot mount my cd drive with out the following error:-

[Chris@localhost cdrom]# mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems

Hmm. Don't know what that means. I have not been able use this cd drive for anything other than playing music so far in linux.

It works fine in Win98, and I can even burn in win98. I got the latest stable version of gtoaster and it doesn't recognize my CDRW either. Infact I cannot mount it with the gnome disk managementy tool.

What is really confusing is that the gnome cdplayer pops up and plays away so somthing recognises what is going on.

Further, I fancied messing around with cdparanoia, which seems to report a similar error but mentions something about scsi arrangements. I have no scsi arrangements. This is all under IDE. I tried doing the simple -Q option in cdparanoia (simple query the cd index table and display it) which cd paranoia seems to do without a problem. Correctly too.

I was wondering if this was a UDF problem at first but I don't think it is as the normal D's and burnt data disks seem to have no problem.

I have had this problem all the time since I installed RH7.1 about 8 wks ago.

[Meester Woowis]

I mena non UDF disks DO have the same problem.

In fact come to think of it the only cd's which have been ok were the install ones.

I was going to do a kernel compile but I was wondering that might be a be a bit over the top considering the problem.

It also means I cannot use my LXF cover cd's for the last 8 months.

[thedexman]

Are you using SCSI emulation for the burner? What happens if you run mount /dev/sd0 /mnt/cdrom ? What does your /etc/fstab file look like?

[Meester Woowis]

I genuinely don't think I am using SCSI emulation. why would RH7.1 randomly engage in scsi emulation as part of the install?

I haven't tried mounting any scsi devices because there are none in the mnt directory. Or is that not what I am being asked.

I will check up on /etc/fstab and return with info.

[thedexman]

It might if it detected the drive as a CD burner.
You are looking for SCSI devices in the /dev (dev for device :) ), not /mnt. Usually, distributions come with files in /dev for almost everything under sun. The mount point is, for the most part, arbitrary.

[momo]

what modules are loaded. What is the output of lsmod?