cant mount drive

[Thornton]

> Wow! This is turning into a looooong thread! So let's see I went back
> into the beginning of the thread and reread everything. Here is the
> sum:
yes this has unfortunately.

> You have an internal CDRW (AOPEN CD-RW CRW5232 1.03 20031013)
> that is recognized by the kernel (that is good news) that when you
> mount valid CDs on it they mount no problem (since in earlier posts
> you fixed the little typo in your /etc/fstab).
i did fix that type but i thaught i posted that it still didnt fix the
problem doing a regular mount.  I cant use konqoreor or just do a mount
without the full screen mount of mount udf iso9660, etc. 
> 
> The only problem is that when you try to burn things with 'cdrecord'
> you can't get exclusive access on the drive even though you are using
> k3b or cdrecord as root.
> 
> cdrecord -scanbus dev=ATAPI
> 
> recognizes your CDRW correctly but still you can't get exclusive access on it.
> 
> So the only thing that I have in mind is try to remove your CF Card
> Reader and then run
> 
> /sbin/lsmod
i removed the cf card and even rebooted to make sure those modules were
out of the system.
/sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
udf                    79429  0
vfat                   12481  0
fat                    39393  1 vfat
snd_mixer_oss          18048  0
snd_intel8x0           35404  1
snd_ac97_codec         63952  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm                88584  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_timer              29188  1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc          9736  2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport                4033  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart         9216  1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi            25636  1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device          8200  1 snd_rawmidi
snd                    51172  10
snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device
soundcore               7713  1 snd
vmnet                  28688  12
vmmon                  45088  0
parport_pc             21249  1
lp                      9133  0
parport                35977  2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4                20677  0
sunrpc                141861  1
forcedeth              15937  0
floppy                 54001  0
sg                     28513  0
scsi_mod              105360  1 sg
dm_mod                 47317  0
ohci_hcd               19793  0
ehci_hcd               27973  0
button                  4825  0
battery                 7117  0
asus_acpi               9177  0
ac                      3533  0
ext3                   96937  3
jbd                    66521  1 ext3

> 
> and post the results. Afterwards try to put an empty or CDRW cd in
> your CD drive and give something like say
> 
> cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao -data <some file here>
> 
> and see what happens. Does it work now?

it didnt work. this is the output i got.

cdrecord -v gracetime=2 dev=ATAPI:0,0,0 -dao -data
/home/obsidian/kde/linspire-full-4.5.499.iso
Cdrecord-Clone 2.01-dvd (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2004 Jörg
Schilling
Note: This version is an unofficial (modified) version with DVD support
Note: and therefore may have bugs that are not present in the original.
Note: Please send bug reports or support requests to
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla
Note: The author of cdrecord should not be bothered with problems in
this version.
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: 'ATAPI:0,0,0'
devname: 'ATAPI'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Use of ATA is preferred over ATAPI.
Warning: Using ATA Packet interface.
Warning: The related Linux kernel interface code seems to be
unmaintained.
Warning: There is absolutely NO DMA, operations thus are slow.
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
SCSI buffer size: 64512
atapi: 1
Device type    : Removable CD-ROM
Version        : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info    : 'AOPEN   '
Identifikation : 'CD-RW CRW5232   '
Revision       : '1.03'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Current: 0x0008
Profile: 0x0008 (current)
Profile: 0x0009
Profile: 0x000A
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc   CD-R/CD-RW driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags   : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE FORCESPEED
Supported modes: TAO PACKET SAO SAO/R96P SAO/R96R RAW/R96R
Drive buf size : 1359872 = 1328 KB
FIFO size      : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: data   545 MB
Total size:      626 MB (62:02.37) = 279178 sectors
Lout start:      626 MB (62:04/28) = 279178 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP info from disk:
  Indicated writing power: 6
  Is not unrestricted
  Is not erasable
  Disk sub type: Medium Type C, low Beta category (C-) (6)
  ATIP start of lead in:  -11231 (97:32/19)
  ATIP start of lead out: 359846 (79:59/71)
Disk type:    Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 27
Manufacturer: Prodisc Technology Inc.
Trying to clear drive status.
Forcespeed is OFF.
cdrecord: Drive needs to reload the media to return to proper status.
cdrecord: Cannot get next writable address for 'invisible' track.
cdrecord: This means that we are checking recorded media.
cdrecord: This media cannot be written in streaming mode anymore.
cdrecord: If you like to write to 'preformatted' RW media, try to blank
the media first.
Forcespeed is OFF.
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed  52.0 in real SAO mode for single
session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write    0 seconds. Operation starts.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... input buffer ready.
BURN-Free is ON.
Turning BURN-Free off
Performing OPC...
cdrecord: Input/output error. send opc: scsi sendcmd: no error
CDB:  54 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
Sense Bytes: 70 00 03 00 00 00 00 0C 00 00 00 00 64 C0 00 00 00 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x3 Medium Error, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x64 Qual 0xC0 (illegal mode for this track) [No matching
qualifier] Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid)
cmd finished after 11.030s timeout 200s
cdrecord: OPC failed.
Writing  time:   11.062s
cdrecord: fifo had 64 puts and 0 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.