problems with enabling cdrom drives

[Keith Antoine]

On Tuesday 22 April 2003 09:40, Net Llama! wrote:

> > I found tonight that I cannot access any of my cd drives or floppy at
> > all.
> >
> > fstab entries:
> > none /mnt/cdrom supermount
> > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> > none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount
> > dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> > none /mnt/floppy supermount
> > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
> >
> > When called from a terminal:
> > [root at cpe-203-45-133-237 mnt]# cd cdrom
> > bash: cd: cdrom: Input/output error
> > [root at cpe-203-45-133-237 mnt]# cd cdrom2
> > bash: cd: cdrom2: Input/output error
>
> Perhaps this is just my ignorance of devfs talking, but what does the
> output from the 'mount' command show you?

Sorry about the lateness odf the reply but have been taken up with other 
things for a while. However the mount command shows that there are "non on' 
any of those mount points.

/dev/hda14 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
/dev/hdc5 on /backup type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda8 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda7 on /build type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda9 on /cdimage type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/hda10 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount 
(ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso885 9-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
none on /mnt/cdrom2 type supermount 
(ro,dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso885 9-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
none on /mnt/floppy type supermount 
(rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=i so8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hdc7 on /mnt/win_E type vfat 
(rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hde5 on /mnt/win_F type ntfs (ro,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/win_c type vfat 
(rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/win_d type vfat 
(rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hdc6 on /opt type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda11 on /photos type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda13 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda12 on /video type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)

The question now begs as to how to fix this, knowing full well that you do not 
know devfs, and i know less than you :)

-- 
Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161
Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage