S.Toms wrote:
>
> I was gathering stuff for a garage sale and came across and old 8x
> cd-rom which I decided to install in my system to accompany the rest of
> the crap in it. Anyway, I got it installed, and it shows up during boot
> as 'hdd'
>
> hdd: aCeR Cd-787E/SaS, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: ATAPI 6X CD-ROM drive, 240kB Cache
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
>
> anyway, when I attempt to mount it I receive the following error and
> was wondering what I may have missed. I also tried mounting it with
> 'hdd0' and 'hdd1' which wouldn't even acknowledge the drive whereas
> 'hdd' at least seemed to attempt the mount
I didn't think you can partition an IDE CD-ROM. If you
can, please let me know - this could be useful.
> pipedream:/home/skull # mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom/eide
> mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> the cd is not an audio disk, it mounts fine on my other cd drive as you
> can see here.
>
> pipedream:/home/skull # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom/scsi
> mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
>
> just not on the other. The other thing is the 6X should read 8X in my
> opinion but isn't a big deal to me at the moment, but if anyone has a
> clue on that as well I would like to hear it.
> --
I see you got suckered on the old Acer 787 also. That
particular CD-ROM won't read CD-R's. It only reads
silver, factory-pressed CD's. I discovered this the
hard way, and verified it with their web site.
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