Usually this happens when a cable goes bad. Don't know why
cables can go bad like that, but that is the first place to try.
73 de KK6WJ
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Subject: [expert] Fwd: cdrom not working: SW or HW fault?
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2000 08:31:53 -0100
From: Marco Fioretti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
I have a pc running Mandrake 6.1, with an ATAPI
cdrom drive NEC CDR-3001. The drive always worked fine
until yesterday, when it quit on me right in the middle of an RPM installation.
Now I get the errors described below 90% of times, no matter which
cdrom I try to read. Even when mount succeeds, I just get the top directory
listing, but trying to cat some files, or open it via kfm times out, takes a
loooong time, or just leaves me with a blank
The reason I'm posting this is: could it be some SW/configuration fault (like
some file I canceled by mistake/something which is looped on itself..)? How
could I find out?
I'd really hate to have to fetch money for a new drive right now....
Any help is really appreciated,
Marco
I I try to open it by clicking on the KDE icon, I get:
KFM error Could not mount
Error log:
file:/dev/cdrom%3A%20Input/output%20error%0Amoun...ou%20must%20specify%20the%20filesystem%20type%0A
If I try from the console, as root, I get:
[root@polaris marco]# m /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto
user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
[
[root@polaris marco]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
[root@polaris marco]# umount /mnt/cdrom/
umount: /mnt/cdrom/: not mounted
In both cases the led blinks a few times and then dies, and no noise
whatsoever
comes from the drive
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