Eduardo Arauz wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eduardo Arauz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 4:02 AM
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [newbie] CD Rom not accessible
>
> Hi Alan i am having a similar problem mounting my cd rom, but in this case
> i ve trying almost everything ( today i will try to switch the IDE cables
> of my cd rom and cd-R to see what happens), and my fstab is exactly like
> the one above
> --</mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom
> i have changed it to a thousand different forms and nothing happens, it
> sends the following error " unable to accses the specific directory" or the
> other error is " inut/output error"... i am thinking that is a hardware
> problem with my jumpers.... because the others device supermount perfectly.
> and yes i disabled the supermount and try to make it manual and the same
> error occurs.
> please if you or something else can help me ...
>
> J------->>>>>>im....oh, I didn't realize that you're using supermount.
> That line in your /etc/fstab file is not correct, it should be
> like the one below:
>
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom
> 0 0
>
> and of course the softlink /dev/cdrom should link to /dev/hdd
>
> Alan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Shoemaker [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Saturday, May 06, 2000 12:28 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: Jim Brown
> Subject: Re: [newbie] CD Rom not accessible
>
> Jim....oh, I didn't realize that you're using supermount.
> That line in your /etc/fstab file is not correct, it should be
> like the one below:
>
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom
> 0 0
>
> and of course the softlink /dev/cdrom should link to /dev/hdd
>
> Alan
>
> <huge snip>
IIRC CD-R's are treated as SCII devices and are mounted differently. Don't
know how to do that but perhaps someone else can show you the way.
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