Re: cant mount drive

From: Thornton (thornton_at_cierragroup.com)
Date: 10/08/04

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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 01:43:24 -0700

    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!

    When I bootup it is giving an error of mount fd type ro is not
    recognized. I tried booting w/ an older kernel and that didnt fix that.

    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jun 17 22:10 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

    cdrecord -scanbus
    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.
    Linux sg driver version: 3.5.31
    Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
    cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version
    (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.83-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c
    1.83 04/05/20 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling').
    scsibus0:
            0,0,0 0) 'Generic ' 'STORAGE DEVICE ' '1.00' Removable Disk
            0,1,0 1) *
            0,2,0 2) *
            0,3,0 3) *
            0,4,0 4) *
            0,5,0 5) *
            0,6,0 6) *
            0,7,0 7) *

    I am going to check out /proc/ide/hdc/ now

    I wasnt able to mount w/ x windows shutdown..

    Thanks everyone! 

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