F11 and CD Failure
Daniel B. Thurman
dant at cdkkt.com
Wed Oct 7 15:05:27 UTC 2009
On 10/06/2009 04:46 PM, Craig White wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 14:29 -0700, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
>
>> Aaron Konstam wrote:
>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I tried this on F9, it does not seem to work:
>>>>
>>>> # mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /media/cd
>>>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
>>>> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>>>> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>>> dmesg | tail or so
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Yoour type was wrong. Are audio CDs for example iso99660?
>>>
>>>
>> The man pages says only: iso9660 is available, so I used this one.
>>
>> In any case, I tried it to see what it does:
>> # mount -t iso99660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /media/cd
>> mount: unknown filesystem type 'iso99660'
>> mount: maybe you meant 'iso9660'?
>>
> ----
> yes, iso9660 - Aaron is somewhat typo prone, but recognize that an
> 'audio cd' does not have an iso9660 file system...it has no file system
> at all and thus cannot be mounted on any level other than 'virtual' -
> i.e. so the disc can be ripped or played.
> ----
>
>>
>>>> Interestingly, removing the CD from the drive results:
>>>> # mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /media/cd
>>>> mount: No medium found
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Is yoour CD drive /dev/sro or /dev/sr1?
>>>
>>>
>> See below... there are TWO CD/DVD devices!
>>
>>>> Note: /dev/cdrom does not work. I tried this for both
>>>> of my CD CD/DVD drives and I note that the devices
>>>> respectively are: /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1
>>>>
>>>> # mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /media/cd
>>>> mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You have no /dev/cdrom it looks like.
>>>
>> Yes, no /dev/cdrom and since I have a CD device and a
>> CD/DVD device, this is what I see:
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-10-06 06:49 /dev/cdrom2 -> sr0
>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2009-10-06 06:49 /dev/cdrom6 -> sr1
>>
>> Is the reason I have no /dev/cdrom because there is no possible
>> way to determine which device will have /dev/cdrom?
>>
> ----
> that could have been the issue though you certainly could recreate the
> link if you wanted, but you would have to decide which drive.
>
> i.e.
>
> ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
> or
> ln -s /dev/sr1 /dev/cdrom
>
> but you cannot do both
>
> Craig
>
Thanks, Craig!
Dan
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