Newbie: CD/DVD-Rom cant mount

**DigitalVapor** · 05-08-2003

I ran into this problem where I can only mount my CD/DVD-ROM drive if there is a DVD in the drive. If I try to mount a CD I get this error:

Could not mount device

The reported error was

/dev/dvd: input/output error

mount: I could not determine the filesystem type
and none was specified.

SuSE.com supposedly has a fix for this telling me to log in as root and enter the command ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom but this does NOTHING!!!

after using that command though when I change my cd/dvd-rom properties in the device tab i change the device to dev/cdrom and I get this error

Could not mound device

The reported error was

Too many levels of symbolic link

So please tell me what the !@#$ i am supposed to do???

**Dolda2000** · 05-08-2003

Are you sure that you didn't accidently run ln -sf /mnt/cdrom /dev/sr0 instead? That would explain why you get too many levels of symlinks. Could you post the output of these commands?

Code:

ls -l /dev/&#123;cdrom,dvd,sr0,scd0&#125;
grep ide-scsi /etc/modules.conf /proc/modules
cat /proc/cmdline

You must be root for this to work.

**DigitalVapor** · 05-09-2003

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 7 15:40 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sr0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 6 22:59 /dev/dvd -> /dev/hdc
brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 0 Mar 23 2002 /dev/scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 7 15:28 /dev/sr0 -> /dev/sr0

and

auto BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=301

**Dolda2000** · 05-09-2003

Sorry, can you give me the output of some other commands?

Code:

for file in /proc/ide/ide?/hd?; do echo $file; cat $file/driver; done
grep cdrom /etc/fstab

**DigitalVapor** · 05-09-2003

ummm could you break that down for me? i have NO idea what you just said

**Dolda2000** · 05-09-2003

Just run the commands I wrote there, and then post the output the give you back here, just like you did the last time.

**DigitalVapor** · 05-09-2003

could you write it in a manner so i can just copy and paste this time? cause im a total newbie

**Dolda2000** · 05-09-2003

What's wrong with how I wrote it? It's just as copyable as anything else.

**DigitalVapor** · 05-09-2003

well you wrote it with place holders and I dont know what goes in those places

**Dolda2000** · 05-09-2003

No, I didn't write it with place holders, I wrote it precisely as they should be run.

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