fedora-list Digest, Vol 13, Issue 42 - CDROM Mounting

[Greg Viola]

Just for the record, I figured out what was wrong with this CD drive - I
re-installed it in an XP machine, and it works perfectly  - I am fairly
sure it must be an htfo-fl problem - I put a new CD/RW drive in the
linux box, works fine.

Also, the CDRoast problem turned out to be a type of problem most every
CD program in my system has with the CD drives - permissions issues -
the drives are always recognized fine when logged in as root, never as a
user.  Someone did suggest I change permissions in udev, but, being a 1
month old linux user, that looks too daunting and dangerous.  I'll try
that when I get a little more confident.  Seems weird that a workstation
OS would default to that..

Also, getting the second CD drive to be recognized was fairly simple -
it usually works better when the IDE cable is plugged into the back of
the drive <sigh>.


On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:18 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 09:18 -0500, fedora-list-request at redhat.com
> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:41 -0500, Greg Viola wrote:
> > > Hi:
> > > 
> > > First, I want to thank you guys for helping me unravel how to get the
> > > install disks created from the  FC3 ISO download files.  Worked great.
> > > 
> > > Now I am trying to use the CD drive (which is fairly old, but its the
> > > one I used to install FC3) , and I get an error - "cannot read
> > > superblock" - when I insert a CD into the drive and FC3 tries to mount
> > > the CD.  CD reads fine in WinXP.  Get the same error with commercial
> > > audio CDs.  Can't open the drive either once I get this error. XMMS
> > > and GRIP both report drive errors.  CD Roast wants me to make the
> > > drives emulate SCSI, but I haven't tried that yet.
> > > 
> > > Also, how do I get FC3 to recognize my second CD drive (brand new
> > > CD/DVD drive)
> > > 
> > > Both drives are on the second IDE controller.  The old drive is
> > > master, new one slave
> > > 
> > 
> > You don't say which distro you are using.
> > If it is FC3 you do not need the scsi emulation for the CDROM.
> > 
> > You did not say what hardware you have with the CDROMs.  If you are
> > using a cable-select cable, then you must jumper the drives to cable
> > select.  If you are using an older 40 wire cable (non-cable select) then
> > you must jumper the drives to master/slave.
> > 
> > I would also recommend that the newest CDROM drive be the master on that
> > bus.
> > 
> > I would expect the problem with reading the drive and mount/dismount
> > problems are related to not properly seeing the CDROM.  Fix the hardware
> > problem first and then if the problem with dismounting continues ask
> > again.
> > 
> > > Thanks
> > > 
> > > Greg Viola 
> > 
> > 
> 
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