Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: >On Thursday 24 March 2005 03:30 pm, Lee Einer wrote: > > >>Hi, Siri- >> >>Your dmesg file indicates that the drive is detected on start-up, and >>hdd is the assigned device name. It is trying to mount to /mnt/cdrom1, >>so you could check your /mnt directory to make sure you have a >>/mnt/cdrom1, but I'm sure you do. If not, you can create one. Assuming >>that you do have a /mnt/cdrom1, the command for mounting, I think, would be >> >>(as root or sudo) >> >> >>mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom1 >> >> > >root@localhost:~# mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom1 >mount: permission denied > >I looked at the /mnt directory cdrom1 and cannot change permissions on it. It >is user=root, group=root. I wanted to change it to group=cdrom. > > >>The problem, though, is that the drive does not appear to be reading the >>discs. If it were, after you inserted the disc and closed the drive you >>would get a flashing light for a few seconds, at least. >> >> > >I do have a light for a few seconds. > > >>Has this been the case since you installed the second CDROM drive? >> >> > >It used to work fine. I used it for ripping to save my burner the work. I used >it for playback of audio disks to make sure my burns went well. It's an Antec >56X. It hasn't had all that much use. Haven't changed the jumpers or cable or >anything. > > When you used to use it, was it on the same cable with another CD-ROM drive? is it jumpered as master or slave, and is the device on /dev/hdc jumpered as master or slave? > > >>I >>would check all the connections and also verify that it is correctly >>jumpered, just to be sure, and if that doesn't work, I would swap it >>with a functioning CD-ROM drive and see if that doesn't address the >>problem. I think it will. >> >>Hope all goes well, >> >>Lee >> >>Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: >> >> >>>Is this what you need to see? From /var/log/dmesg: >>> >>>Probing IDE interface ide0... >>>hda: ST340016A, ATA DISK drive >>>hdb: ST320414A, ATA DISK drive >>>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 >>>Probing IDE interface ide1... >>>hdc: LITE-ON LTR-52246S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive >>>hdd: CD-ROM 56X L, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive >>>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 >>>Probing IDE interface ide2... >>>Probing IDE interface ide3... >>>Probing IDE interface ide4... >>>Probing IDE interface ide5... >>>hda: max request size: 128KiB >>>hda: 78165360 sectors (40020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, >>>UDMA(100) hda: cache flushes not supported >>>hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 > >>>hdb: max request size: 128KiB >>>hdb: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, >>>UDMA(100) hdb: cache flushes not supported >>>hdb: unknown partition table >>>hdd: ATAPI 56X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) >>> >>>(end dmesg) >>> >>>FWIW, I had this problem before I changed the system to use supermount. I >>>have the same problem of nothing showing up in the drive in Vector Linux, >>>too, which doesn't use supermount. I'm starting to think it's a dead >>>drive... >>> >>>Siri Amrit >>> >>> >>> >>>>On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Siri Amrit Kaur wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>root@localhost:~# dmesg | grep CD >>>>> >>>>> >>>>Nothing there. So no reason to continue to next step. See if your boot >>>>kernel messages (dmesg output) is saved at boot time and check there. Or >>>>manually look at "dmesg | more" to find your CD. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>root@localhost:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt >>>>>mount: No medium found >>>>> >>>>> >>>>/dev/hdd may be wrong. Your kernel's boot messages will tell you where >>>>your CD is. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>root@localhost:~# ls -la /mnt >>>>> >>>>> >>>>You can skip this step, because previous step failed. >>>> >>>>(If you are curious, your /mnt can be remounted to hide the contents that >>>>you did see.) >>>> >>>>As for disabling supermount, maybe have a look at "man supermount". >>>>(Hopefully, it explains it.) >>>> >>>>Jeremy C. 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