mounting usb cdroms
Aroon Pahwa
viperstyx at gmail.com
Thu Oct 7 18:22:14 UTC 2004
On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 10:24:48 +0200, Martin Pitt
<martin.pitt at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hi Aroon!
>
> Aroon Pahwa [2004-10-07 3:45 -0400]:
> > Attached is my /etc/fstab as well as the error i recieved from the
> > pmount attempt. Thanks for all your help!
>
> Ah, now we get closer. BTW, command | pmount.txt will fail, you
> meant command | pmount.txt. Anyway, the error message was there:
>
> mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
> or too many mounted file systems
> Error: mount failed
>
> But I strongly suppose that
>
> pmount /dev/scd0
>
> will work?
actually, no...
mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist
and scd0, indeed, is never in /dev. sr0, however, is.
>So this seems to be a hal problem: it reports the device as
> '/dev/sr0', but it should be '/dev/scd0'. Can you please do again:
>
> ls -ld /sys/block
>
aroon at darkmonkey ~ $ ls -ls /sys/block/
total 0
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 7 13:55 dm-0
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 7 13:55 dm-1
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 7 13:55 dm-2
0 drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 0 Oct 7 13:55 hda
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 7 13:55 ram0
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 7 13:55 ram1
...[ram2 through ram14]
0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Oct 7 13:55 ram15
0 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Oct 7 14:14 sr0
> As soon as I have these information, I will ask the hal author about
> that, but I'm afraid we cannot fix that for warty any more.
>
> However, manually mounting it by right-clicking on the CD icon in
> "Disks" and then "Mount" should still work. Can you confirm that?
>
negative, i get the same error scd0 does not exist.
> Thanks for your cooperation!
>
more than willing! thank YOU!
aroon pahwa
viperstyx at gmail.com
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