"Stephen F. Bosch" wrote:
> Lawrence Koga wrote:
>
> > Hello, This is what happened. I installed Mandrake 7.0, running dual boot
> > with Win95. After the install of Mandrake 7.0, I boot with KDE. I can
> > boot and run KDE as XWindow. I can sign up as root, everything seems to
> > work. My cd-rom cannot be opened.
> >
> > When I click on the cd-rom icon, I get an error message that the device
> > cannot be opened.
> >
> > When Linux is loading the cd-rom is found as "hdd". I checked the
> > /etc/fstab file and it is mounted, iso=9660. I even tried at boot "Linux
> > hdd=cdrom"
>
> /etc/fstab only tells you what you've *configured* to mount - it doesn't tell
> you what you actually have mounted.
>
> What does /etc/mtab say?
>
> do this:
>
> cat /etc/mtab > filename.txt
>
> and attach that to your next message to the list.
>
> -Stephen-
Hi ,
I'm having the same problem (this may be a long letter),I have two CD players, a
read only and a burnnerRW(Iomega Zip cd r+w),and over the las three month or so
I have at different times had both working,but constantly have had to reinstall
for one reason or another,and have ,due to bad short term memory,forgotten what
I did to get them to work in the first place. This last time I re connected my
IDE controls ,and changed the master/slave settings on both,since this helped
once before ,only this time it still refused to let me use my burnner,and just
followed my read only over to /mnt/cdrom2,so I powered down and reconnected them
as they where originally set up and low and behold,now I can only access my
burnner and not my readonly.
Phew!! Now according to your above letter IO checked mtab,which I was unclear
of its purpose in the scheme of things,and yes i only have one entry there at
this moment ,that being the cd burner.while fstab lists both,
when I attrempt to use the readonly KFM pops up with a white screen and a
"documents done" line at the bottom of the border,but no image or info from cd.
I have also checked dmesg and I find this : scsi0:SCSI host
adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI device
scsi:1 host
vender:Hitachi model:CDR-8130 REV.0021
type:CDROM ANSI SCSI rev:02
detected:scsi cdrom sr0 at channel0,id 0 lun0 scsi 0
sr0:scsi 3-mm2 drive:8x/16xcd rw xa /form 2 cdda tray
ide-scsi:hdb unsupported command in request queue (0)
end_request:I/O error, dev 03:40 (hdb),sector 0
cdrom:opened failed
it then repeats the last two lines,
the only other entry referring to the cdrom is a line at the top reading: ide
setup:hdb=scsi
I also just noticed that the read only cdrom has an entry of "rw"
sr0:scsi 3-mm2 drive:8x/16xcd rw xa /form 2 cdda tray see? what is that
about ,is it a mistake or just normal,or is my cdrom read only a read and write
wannabe?
Needles to say I am exhusted by my attempts to achieve this duel cdrom package
I have read every book I can afford to buy .and read every email on this list I
recieve everyday ,but i have yet to suceed here ,Please can any one saee if im
doing anything wrong or right here I am very confused and exhusted.Why does
linux make it so hard sometimes to achieve simple things.
Thanks for reading this and thanks in adavace for any response
