mount: /dev/sr0 is not a valid block device

[Jan Kokoska]

On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 18:50 +0200, Wim Vriend wrote:
> Op za, 09-10-2004 te 21:54 +0100, schreef Jan Kokoska:
> > On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 22:36 +0200, Wim Vriend wrote:
> > > Op za, 09-10-2004 te 20:58 +0100, schreef Jan Kokoska:
> > > -> hdc
> > > wim at ubuntu ~ $ dmesg | grep sr0
> > > sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 8x/8x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda pop-up
> > > Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> > > sr0: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
> > > sr0: rw=0, want=1252, limit=4
> > > sr0: rw=0, want=1028, limit=4
> > 
> > Your USB cdrw looks fine. Are you sure you have non-blank media there
> > when trying to mount it? ;) Since it would fail otherwise, of course.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Jan
> > 
> Hello Jan,
> When I put a cd-rw in the in the writer, I have the same message.
> And I have checked the cd-r in my wife's winXP computer, and it was
> really empty :-)

I said non-blank media, as in CD-that-actually-contains-filesystem-that-
could-be-mounted-using-mount. Please try again with a different CD, or
try mounting blank media on just about any cdrw in the world.. that it
doesn't work is not a bug, but an inevitable feature.

Regards,
Jan