Need Help w/ CDRW, CDRom and Zip

[zeppsstteerr]

Hi all, have gone through every NHF I can find and the How-To's and can't read info off of my CDRW, CDRom or Zip. Funny thing is that I can extract audio using Grip and burn using Gcombust but can't see anything else. Any and all help appreciated.

Jeff

[pbharris]

hello
okay, sounds like you are unable to make these devices be mounted, try doing a df -h at a terminal (or shell, or xterm, whatever youcall your command line program), it will tell you how nuch free disk space you have on all of your mounted devices, and has the nifty benefit of also telling you what is mounted. assuming that you have a directory call /mnt/ and the drives you mention are to be mounted at points /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/cdrw and /mnt/zip .
we can start with the easy one, i.e. /mnt/cdrom
type
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
there are only a few of things here which could be the problem if this fails:
1. There is no link called /dev/cdrom, or it is pointing to the wrong device file, check to see if it exists by typing ls -l /dev/cdrom, if it is is there make sure it is pointing at the right device, if your cdrom is hooked up as the master on the second ide channel it would hdc, if it is a scsi drive find out what device it is and create a link to it, makeing a link is easy too! type ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom to create a link to the drive hdc.
If you are using scsi emulation then you will need to create the link to go to /dev/scd0.
how do you know if you are using scsi emulation you ask???? good question, type
cat /etc/lilo.conf if there is a line which say apppend "hdc=ide-scsi" or something simialr then you are. If scsi emulation is being used do a insmod ide-scsi and insmod sg.
now lets try to remount that drive.

it will also be useful to check out the file /etc/fstab, it lists partions and how they are mounted. feel free to email me,
pbharris_359@yahoo.com

[zeppsstteerr]

I have a mount directory because I can see it in the file system and can access my windows partitions and everything else but my removable devices. When I go into the file manager and click on the mount directory the little icons appear and the ones that are removable have a little "belt" around them and when you place the cursor over them they say the device is locked.

[Erik Shock]

Are you using Mandrake 7?
I just saw this on my system....
if not Mandrake, can't help

[zeppsstteerr]

Yeah, I'm sorry. Forgot to mention that I'm using Mandrake 7.1 A friend of mine is using 7.0 and has the same problem.

[Erik Shock]

Yeah, here's your problem....
If you use your burner to load Mandrake,
after the first reboot,
Mandrake will give ya an error anytime you try to mount the drive
Here is where the fix is located in tutorial format: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/
pages/

Fixed my problems in 2 minutes...

Thanks to whoever told me of this in the first place!

[zeppsstteerr]

Hey thanks, i've tried this fix already and it has not worked. It also won't help me with my zip drive. I'll keep looking. Thanks for the help.