mounting CD-RW on Fedora Core 2

[Jeff Vian]

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 02:53, John Que wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a SAMSUNG CD-RW (52x24x52).
> Previuosly I had used it successfully in RedHat 9.
> If I remember well , I added in grub.conf something like hdc=ide-scsi
> (It was quite a time ago).
> Now I had recently upgradced to Fedora Core 2.
> When booting Fedora,I see
> in kernel log  that the SAMSUNG CD-R is being recognized as hdc.
> 
> 
> Should I add something in grub.conf ?
> I saw that in 2.6 kernel there is ide-cd ; should I add somethng like
> hdc=ide-cd in grub.conf ?
> Should I specify something regarding DMA in grub.conf ? (Now there is
> nothing about DMA in grub.conf)
> 
> I had tried mounting the CDROM like thus: (I am not sure at all it's OK)
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> but I got many errors in the log (hdc: DMA timeout retry and hdc: status 
> error : error =0x00 and
> hdc:  drive not ready for command).
> 

Is the CDROM a CD-RW, a completed CD-R, or a purchased data CDROM ?
If it is a CD-RW that has been used and not closed as CD-R then it is a
UDF filesystem and mounting it as iso9660 will not work.  

My fstab has options for iso9660 or UDF for each CDROM drive I have.
When I insert a CD it automounts the disk in either drive.

You should be able to mount a cdrom by using "mount /mnt/cdrom" without
the options or device as long as the line is in fstab. 

> regards,
> John
> 
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