Help ! I broke my CDROM device support

[thom10]

Hello, I'm a newbe in linux and I can't resolve cdrom mounting issue. Think I broke it (

#mount /cdrom
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device

#mount /media/cdrom1
mount: No medium found

# cat /etc/fstab | grep cdrom
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

# ls -la /dev/cdrom
ls: /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory

# dmesg | grep hdc
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hdc: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-241, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)

#dmesg | grep scd0 - USB CDROM is not recognized at boot-up

Before I could always mount both of my CDROM's (internal and extrernal USB ).
Then I started messing with fstab (although I've set everything back as it was before)I could never mount
them again.

Any idea as to why I cant mount them anymore? WHERE COULD I MESS IT UP ? And can I restore the system without having to reinstall it opnew ?

Thnk you very much.

[Vergil83]

I assumed you have tried different cdrom (ie audio cds are not mounted).

You might took at dmesg and see if there are any errros on startup

[ericrun]

Have you tried turning
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
into
/dev/hdc0 /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

And that first command you attempted, try instead
mount /media/cdrom0
or
mount /dev/scd0

And as Virgil pointed out, make sure you have valid data (not voice) media mounted in the device when you attempt this, and if one disk fails, try some others.

In the future, it might be a good idea to copy the file to another name before modifying it, then you can just delete the bad file and copy the backup back should the need arise.

[ericrun]

Keep your replies in the thread so others can participate thom.

message recieved:

Hello, thank you for reply.

I cannot mount any - data or audio CD. Whien I try to do it
wia KDE, like CDPlayer, it says - drive error. And when I try
to change fstab line as you advised :/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 into /dev/hdc0 /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 , I get the same result, only this time:

mount: special device /dev/hdc0 does not exist

Other similar manipulations produce the same:

debian:/home/debian# mount /media/cdrom0
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a block device

debian:/home/debian# mount /dev/scd0
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a block device

debian:/home/debian# mount /dev/scd0
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a block device

debian:/home/debian# mount /dev/scd0
mount: /dev/scd0 is not a block device

debian:/home/debian# mount /media/cdrom1
mount: special device /dev/hdc0 does not exist

dmesg does not seem to show any errors. The only relevant part of it
referreing to CDROM :
debian:/home/debian# dmesg | grep hdc
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hdc: QSI CD-RW/DVD-ROM SBW-241, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33).
Thats all Sad
Btw, I'm using 2,4 kernel. Could it be something that I need to upgrade, or so.
Please, forgive my ignorance but how does Linux talk to CDROM's - only via fstab,
or there might be more configuration files ?

Will appreciate further idea's

Thom

[ericrun]

Are you sure the external device is scd? It should be one of sda0, sdb0, sdc0. That would be why you're getting the block error on your attempt to mount the usb drive.

[ericrun]

Hmm, I'm not at my machine, but it looks like with cdrom devices, you don't need the number after the device (I forget that since there is only one file system possible on a cd, so you probably need the /dev/hdc the way you had it originally, and use sda, sdb, sdc, or sdd (whichever one works) for the external.

You should probably try to use the mount command with options instead of editing the fstab file all the time. Once you have the mount command down, then you can update the changes to the fstab. The mount command would look the same as your fstab line, but with mount in front of it. For instance, if

mount /dev/sdc /media/cdrom0

works, then you can know that it's OK to make those changes to the fstab.

[thom10]

Are you sure the external device is scd? It should be one of sda0, sdb0, sdc0. That would be why you're getting the block error on your attempt to mount the usb drive.

Right now, I only want to mount internal CDROM and no matter how I call it in mount command ( it was always hdc before) I get at best mount usage help screen

I even thought there was something with kernel, so I upgraded to 2,6 - no difference- it's either : the special device does not exist, or not a valid block device

Looks like this is not a newbe problem. I'm clueless. Thinking of good old windows cure - reinsrall

[thom10]

Are you sure the external device is scd? It should be one of sda0, sdb0, sdc0. That would be why you're getting the block error on your attempt to mount the usb drive.

Right now, I only want to mount internal CDROM and no matter how I call it in mount command ( it was always hdc before) I get at best mount usage help screen

I even thought there was something with kernel, so I upgraded to 2,6 - no difference- it's either : the special device does not exist, or not a valid block device

Looks like this is not a newbe problem. I'm clueless. Thinking of good old windows cure - reinsrall

One more thing. This may be interestng. When I ran <cdrecord -scanbus>
this is what I get :

cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.8-2-386
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
cdrecord: Warning: Linux-2.6.8 introduced incompatible interface changes.
cdrecord: Warning: SCSI transport does no longer work for suid root programs.
cdrecord: Warning: if cdrecord fails, try to run it from a root account.
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.
cdrecord:
cdrecord: For more information, install the cdrtools-doc
cdrecord: package and read /usr/share/doc/cdrecord/README.ATAPI.setup .

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