I've experienced this problem too, In my case, i had the devices mounted as
supermount filesystem when there was no media in the drives i would get
similar errors, however putting media in them did the trick. also got the
same type of errors with blank cd's. since you brought up that you have a
4802TE, may I ask if it is working under linux ?
root wrote:
> Here's a funny thing!
>
> Whenever I try to access either of my CD drives, whether as root or
> user, I am refused access.
>
> Using Konqueror, I get the message: "Unableto enter file:/mnt/cdrom. You
> do not have access rights to this location." - if root doesn't have
> access, who does? My CD drives are shown under /mnt with little
> padlocks on them.
>
> Using a terminal command: ls /mnt/cdrom, I get the message "Input/output
> error".
>
> The only way I have ever been able to get round it is to boot from a
> floppy rather than LILO - this is a hassle.
>
> If anyone has encountered and solved this problem, I would be grateful
> for guidance.
>
> I am running Mandrake 7.2 (never had this problem with 7.1) and my
> drives are a Mitsumi 4802TE (re-writable) and Samsung SCR232
>
> Graham Watkins
