I/O error on cdrom

William Hooper whooperhsd3 at earthlink.net
Wed Jan 14 15:51:59 UTC 2004


Thiers Botelho said:

> [root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: Not a directory

Does /mnt/cdrom exist?

> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> [root at inf-cpg-c2036-lx root]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> /dev/cdrom: Input/output error
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type

Does your /etc/fstab file have a line for /dev/cdrom?

-- 
William Hooper





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