On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 13:10, James D. Parra wrote: > Thanks, James, but this is occurring with all CDs. I think, maybe, with the > automount is not working, but I don't know. Issuing a umount & then mount > doesn't fix it either. > > James >
Have you cleaned the boxes (as in dust removal) of late? Maybe some dust got in the drive if you did that. Are any of the boxes dual boot? (check the cd's in the other OS.) Finally if you insert disc1 can you boot to the rescue disk. (this will tell you if BIOS is even able to "access" the CD drive.) > > -----Original Message----- > From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 12:06 PM > To: Expert List > Subject: Re: [expert] can't connect to /mnt/cdrom (MDK 9.1) > > > On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 11:50, James D. Parra wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Tried to cd to /mnt/cdrom, but received, -bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: > Input/output > > error. > > > > The fstab has the following entry; > > > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > > dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepa > > ge=850,umask=0 0 0 > > > > Why is the "none" in there and is this what is causing the problem? I went > > to another MDK box and received the same error. > > > > What's happening and how can I fix this? > > > > Many thanks, > > > > James > > usually the I/0 error is because the cd drive cannot for whatever reason > read the cd itself. This is equivalent to the windows "drive not ready" > pop-up window. In either case the problem is the same. The hardware > can't read the media. > > james > > PS. Your fstab is good. Seems that with supermount the first thing > declared has to be a dev if you don't want supermount to handle it. If > you do ... you put it in later, and start the line with none. Note that > this is AFIAK and subject to error correction. > > > > > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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