cdrom will not mount

[Andrew Farris]

On Tue, 2009-08-18 at 15:25 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
[snip]
> When I put in any cd-r/w type cd - it says blank cd - whether anything
> is on it or now. When I put in ANY cd that is commercial - it says there
> is no media. I think its hardware related so Im sending it back.

I had a similar issue with a set of CDs for a windows game i was trying
to install through wine. I finally discovered what the issue was once I
ran nautilus as root, and looked at the mounted drives...

turned out the CD was actually auto-mounting, but the 'owner' of the
drive was listed as group# 400. I could see this plain as day when
looking as root, but as a normal user, it just kept saying that there
wasn't a disk in the drive. I ended up having to manually extract
everything in the disks to my desktop, chown/chmod, then use them. 

The disks were for a Lord of the Rings game, btw :)


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Andrew
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