[sclug] Problem with CD drives after rebuild

[Neil Haughton]

Tom,

Case duly collected (as you have probably noticed) and it's perfect. Thanks!

Perhaps you can give me some advice though. I have transferred everything
carefully to the new case, including the original power supply, and it all
works except that neither of the CD drives can be mounted. They are on the
same cable as before, connected to the secondary IDE socket on the
motherboard as before, and although the Ubuntu Hardware Information utility
shows them connected, I cannot mount a CD in either. Never had this problem
before but I'm at a loss to know where to turn. I've checked the cable is
the right way around (presumably if it wasn't Ubuntu would not see them),
and on power-up if a CD is inside they spin up as usual and they open and
close in response to the eject buttons on the front, so I know they have
power.  I just can't mount them.

My /etc/fstab has the following lines:

/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0

A mount command shows:

/dev/hda8 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.22-15-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hda6 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb2 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/hda5 type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /var type ext2 (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
/dev/hda9 on /media/disk type ext3 (rw,nosuid,nodev)

As you can see, they aren't mounted. If I mount them explicitly (with a CD
in the drive!) I get

$ mount /dev/hdd
mount: No medium found

Any ideas?

Regards,

Neil.