cant mount drive

Thornton thornton at cierragroup.com
Fri Oct 8 06:00:02 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 17:44, Filippos Klironomos wrote:
> > 
> > yes i restarted then even tried a reboot
> > 
> 
> Alright! What does
> 
> ls -l /dev/cdrom
> 
> give you? What is the output of
> 
> cdrecord -scanbus
> 
> >From what I see something is claiming rights on your cdrom and doesn't
> let anybody else operate on it. This something can operate only
> through the driver that runs the device. So either that driver is
> mulfunctioning or something else is fixing itself on the cdrom.
> 
> So a couple of things to do is to shut down X-Windows and on one of
> the terminals try to mount the cdrom and see what happens (that way
> you'll know for sure that it's not the 'automount' thing I hinted in
> previous post.
> 
> Then browse around your /proc/ide/hdc/ directory that has all the info
> about the device and post your results.
> 
> I can think of only three things: 'automout' feature, faulty module,
> bad SCSI, ATAPI module setup.
> 
> Good luck!

I'll try that now.  I also noticed on bootup where it has mount fd type
not supported.  I've never had errors on bootup so maybe thats part of
the cause.

Something i am going to check out.




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