> Three days ago I upgraded my OS from RH7.1 to RH7.2.
> Now I can't access my CD drive. Here is what I have
> figured out so far, and I'm at a dead end.
>
> The first sign something was wrong was when I couldn't
> listen to audio CDs. I can't mount data disks either.
>
> o I have an ordinary CD drive and a CD burner.
>
> o The CD burner (a Plextor PX-W8432T) is the master on
> the second IDE port and the ordinary 52X CD is the
> slave. This means that I use the burner to boot the
> OS CD from, and to do installations. I don't remember
> why I had to set it up that way, but it worked for a
> long time.
>
> Here is what my IDE setup looks like:
>
> $ for i in hd[a-d]; do echo "---- $i ----"; ide_info $i; done
> ---- hda ----
> MODEL="WDC WD204BA"
> FW_REV="16.13M16"
> SERIAL_NO="WD-WMA071064891"
> ---- hdb ----
> open() failed: No such device or address
> ---- hdc ----
> MODEL="PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W8432T"
> FW_REV="1.05"
> SERIAL_NO=""
> ---- hdd ----
> MODEL="ATAPI 52X CDROM"
> FW_REV="VER-1.40"
> SERIAL_NO=""
>
> $ ls -l /dev/cdrom
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root lnewton 3 Jun 7 2001 /dev/cdrom -> hdd
>
> (Note that I've got only one drive in the system. The
> slave position on port 0 is open.) This stuff all
> appears correct.
>
> o I can't mount a normal CD drive. I tried it with the
> RH7.2 installation disk.
>
> # grep cdrom /etc/fstab
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro,loop 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>
> # mount /cdrom
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop1,
> or too many mounted file systems
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
is /dev/cdrom1 still pointing to /dev/hdd?
> I *can* mount them on my burner
>
> o When I put an audio CD in it won't play.
>
> o cdparanoia -Q on a known good commercial audio cd
> produces this:
>
> ... output deleted ..
> /dev/cdrom exists but isn't accessible. ...
> ... output deleted ..
> Checking /dev/cdrom for cdrom...
> Testing /dev/cdrom for cooked ioctl() interface
> Device /dev/hdd is not a CDROM
> Testing /dev/cdrom for SCSI interface
> /dev/cdrom is not a SCSI device
OK, guessing it worked before the upgrade. Could some permissions have been
changed, preventing a normal user from accessing the device?
> o I *can* burn copies on my burner (/dev/hda)
>
> Tonight when I made an audio CD, the CD player client
> (gtcd) popped up and tried to play it. The counter
> was working, and it showed the right number of
> tracks. Of course, this is not selected as my audio
> device, so there was no sound.
>
> That's as far as I got. Can someone throw me a hint?
>
> Thanks very much.
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