Hi. Thanks for the reply. I checked that file. Here is what it says:
hda: IBM-DHEA-38451, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdc: FX240S, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
I was able to mount hdc as my /mnt/cdrom2, as well as my floppy. However,
when I try to mount hdb the same way as I did with hdc (mount -t iso9660
/dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom) I get the following error:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb,
or too many mounted file systems
What might be causing this to run differently than the other drive?
Thanks a million,
William
On Sat, 04 Mar 2000, you wrote:
> type "mount /dev/hardware_device /a/directory" as root to mount something.
> The CD-ROM would command would most likely be "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" for
> you, and for floppys it's "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy". As for the CDR, I've
> seen several different hardware ID's for it, mine personally is sr0 but I"ve
> seen stuff like hdc too. Look in /var/log/dmesg and see if you cant' spot in
> there what Linux calls your CDR. And from your "input/output error", were you
> trying to mount a music CD? Those don't mount under Linux, just use a CD-Player
> app to play them, under "Multimedia" in both Gnome and KDE.
>
>
> > I recently installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 (Deluxe) on my PII 300. The
> > installation went smoothly. I configured the partitions, printer, modem,
> > and dialup connection. The problems begin when I boot into Linux. The KDE
> > loads fine, and all the programs seem to work..
> >
> > However, when I want to access my CD Rom drive or my Floppy, I begin to get
> > errors. I have tried several mount commands (as recommended by #linuxhelp
> > on EFNet), but have had no success. I have two CD Rom drives: a HP CD
> > Burner (master) and a MITSUMI (slave).
> >
> > Since I am new to Linux, I have absolutely no clue about what to do about
> > getting these things working. Sometimes I get "bad command" and
> > "Input/Output error." It seems to me that if I installed Linux from a CD
> > Rom drive that it should be able to be read by Linux.
>
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