Pumalite

Just installed latest SimplyMepis. When I tried to copy my Firefox Bookmarks, CD-ROM didn't show up anywhere??? Any help greatly appreciated. Where does it normally mount and what is the device (/dev/???). I check media; there is a cdrom and a cdrom1, but there are both empty. There is nothing in /mnt.

Pumalite

This is what I got so far:

Called: mount /dev/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so ( from KwiDisk)

And this is the output of dmesg | tail:

pumalite@1[~]$ dmesg | tail
[17236803.824000] attempt to access beyond end of device
[17236803.824000] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
[17236803.824000] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
[17236803.852000] attempt to access beyond end of device
[17236803.852000] hdc: rw=0, want=68, limit=4
[17236803.860000] attempt to access beyond end of device
[17236803.860000] hdc: rw=0, want=1252, limit=4
[17236803.860000] attempt to access beyond end of device
[17236803.860000] hdc: rw=0, want=1028, limit=4
[17236803.860000] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
pumalite@1[~]$


The funny thing is that k3b does recognize CD-ROM. Any ideas? What am I doing wrong? or What am I reading wrong? Total newbie, especially to Mepis. I have Suse 10.2 in another drive and Ubuntu 6.10 in another partition ( in the same drive as Mepis) in the same machine. The other two distros have no problems with CD-ROM ( it mounts itself every time I put a disk inside ). Thanks for any help.

Pumalite

This is my /etc/fstab:

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
# Dynamic entries below, identified by 'users' option
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hdb1 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/hdb2 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hdb3 /mnt/hdb3 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom iso9660,udf noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat,ext2 noauto,users,exec,rw 0 0
/etc/fstab (END)

The line for cdrom is in my fstab, but when you go to look in 'roo' and check 'media', cdrom is empty. I have the Icon in my Desktop. When I right click on it, it gives me the option to mount, so I doit; nothing happens ( no errors) and when i right click again the option to mount has disappeared, so I assumed is mounted; I go to the option to 'Open' and then I get confronted with the same error as in KwiDisk: ( this time from KDesktop ):

Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

Please help.

Pumalite

The problem is only with CD-RW. With CD-R's, the device mounts itself and reads it as long as it recognizes it. This problem is partially solved.

Pumalite

I rebooted with the CD-RW on the drive and now is recognized. So, the problem is solved; I guess.

burdicda

I get that sometimes also...
requiring a reboot for some reason or another....

After rebooting it's magically there....now this didn't do this
prior to 6.5 with any of the same exact hardware.....

guess we will just have to watch it and work out the kinks ...

ciao

burdicda

* Just letting you know your are not imagining things there are others out here
with the same problem...

Pumalite

I had the same problem in Ubuntu 7.04. I solved it by going to BIOS>IDE Configuration>Advanced Support>Support PATA+SATA. Hope it helps someone.