[Nelug] Problem mounting removable media in Redhat 7.1 - Part II

[lee]

what does modprobe tell you? is the fake scsi module there? seen as most
CDRW want
such a beast before they behave themselves.... just a thought :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "gary.park" <gary.park at boltblue.com>
To: <nelug at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:29 PM
Subject: [Nelug] Problem mounting removable media in Redhat 7.1 - Part II


> Dear Members,
>
> Thanks to Eddy and Peter for your help some time ago on my problem of
> mounting removable media under Redhat 7.1. You were both correct in
> respect of the floppy drive as (for some bizarre reason) there was no
> directory for it in the /mnt directory.
>
> However, I still cannot get the CD or CD-RW to mount, if I try to mount
> either one I get the following error:
>
> Could not mount device
> The reported error was:
> mount: wrong FS type, bad option, bad superblock or /dev/cdrom or too
> many mounted file systems
>
> fstab looks like this:
>
> LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults
> 1 1
> /dev/hda1 /mnt vfat defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto owner
> 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults
> 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,node=620 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults
> 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu.ro
> 0 0
> /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu.ro
> 0 0
>
> typing mount to display the mtab settings produces this::
>
> /dev/hda6 on /type ext2
> (rw)
> none on /proc type proc
> (rw)
> usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
> /dev/hda1 on /mnt type vfat
> (rw)
> none on /dev/pts type devpts
> (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> automount (pid697)  on  /misc type  autofs
> (rw,fd=5,pgrp=697,minproto=2,maxproto=3)
>
> in /dev/ there is (among other things and excluding dates, times etc.):
>
> cdrom rw - rw root disk /dev/hdb
> cdrom1 rw - rw root disk /dev/scd0
> ........
> fd0 rw - rw root floppy
> ........
> hdb rw - rw root disk
> scd0 rw - rw root disk
>
> And finally, /mnt/ looks like this:
>
> cdrom rwxr-xr-x root directory
> cdrom1 rwxr-xr-x root directory
> ........
> floppy rwxr-xr-x root directory
>
> Can anyone help me by suggesting a solution to this - many thanks again
> for you help
>
> Yours
>
> Gary J Park
>
>
>
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