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!
