On Thursday 26 February 2004 18:24, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>    My cdrom will not read any meadia at all, either burned cd's or
> bought ones. Here is my fstab file, I do get a message that a final
> newline is missing.

This is probably something you've checked already but just in case:  I have a 
DVD player on one of my machines that was intermittent.  At first I thought 
Linux had somehow gotten messed up, because I was running a very heavy load 
on that machine, and actually rebooted.  Then I thought it was the cabling.  
One Saturday I decided I needed to fix it, and after a couple of hours of 
fiddling with the cabling and disconnecting and reconnecting the other 
peripherals, with it working and then not working, I decided to try the 
obvious.  I put a CD in, stuck a pair of headphones in the jack, and pressed 
the play button on the front of the drive.  It didn't play.  Just to be sure 
that some misbehaving piece of software hadn't hosed it up, I rebooted the 
machine in DOS and tried again.  The drive had been on its way out all along 
- and unfortunately was only a year old.  :-(

Vaughn

BTW, the CD was detected and would mount.  You just couldn't do anything with 
it.

>
>    warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab
>
> LABEL=/                  /                         ext3
> defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot           /boot                  ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                           /dev/pts             devpts
> gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> LABEL=/home          /home               ext3    defaults        1 2
> none                           /proc                 proc
> defaults        0 0
> none                           /dev/shm           tmpfs  defaults        0
> 0 LABEL=/tmp            /tmp                   ext3   defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/var             /var                    ext3   defaults        1 2
> LABEL=/www         /www                ext3   defaults        1 2
> /dev/hda5                  swap                   swap defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom                /mnt/cdrom         iso9660
> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0                     /mnt/floppy        auto
> noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
> /dev/fd1                     /mnt/floppy1      auto   noauto,owner,kudzu 0
> 0 /dev/sda1                   /mnt/camera       auto
> defaults,user,noauto 0 0
>
>    The cdrom is detected in the bios, so it is recognized at least
> there. Any ideas as to what may be wrong with, or is there some other
> file that I may have to edit. I am running RH9.
>
>   I'd hate to go out and buy a new one if I don't need to, this cdrom is
> only about 3 years old, well, maybe 4.
>
>   I did check the cabling, and it is ok, it did work as of a few month
> ago, but I rarely use it, so I am at a loss as to what happened.
>
>   TIA
>
>   FrankM
>
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