CDROM isn't working

[Kinstonian]

I just got mandrake 9 installed and i cant read anything off my cdrom. fstab has the info for it to be mounted but theres a lock icon on it and i cant use it even as root. Any help is appriciated.

[bwkaz]

What's the line in fstab?

Open a terminal, and mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and see if that helps. But note that I'm guessing about what's in fstab; if fstab doesn't match the /dev/cdrom or /mnt/cdrom, then change the mount command, not fstab. Post back any errors you get, if any.

[Kinstonian]

heres whats in the fstab

/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda8 /mnt/win_e vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda9 /mnt/win_f vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
/dev/hda10 /mnt/win_g vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[bwkaz]

OK, try mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom instead.

Edit: you might have to unmount the old supermount "filesystem" first, though: umount /mnt/cdrom should work.

[Kinstonian]

[root@localhost steve]# umount /mnt/cdrom
[root@localhost steve]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No medium found
[root@localhost steve]#

I did that and i can get into the cdrom folder now but theres no list of files there. My cdrom is installed but it says its SCSI when its IDE. Dunno if that could be the problem..

[askrieger]

First the easy one, cdrws are mounted as ide-scsi, there's really some software that makes an ide interface look like a scsi interface for the drivers.

Second, audio cds don't have file systems so, if you are trying to play an audio cd, you will not see any files. You can still play (and rip) the tracks on the audio cd.

[Kinstonian]

nah its not audio, it can't read the mandrake cds for some reason. I'll try some other ones cause i just tried them in windows and it wont even read them most of the time.

[Kinstonian]

i tried a different cd and it works, thanks bwkaz

[bwkaz]

Happy to help! :D