mounting usb cdroms

[Aroon Pahwa]

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