Topic: Can't Mount CD-ROM

[Dan Williams]

Hello,
SME 5.6 W/Escalade 7000 controler.
Fresh install no problem.
Using dmesg |less I can see my sony ide cdrom is hdc (secondary channel master)

Using mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom and
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom I get
Input output error / you must specidy the file system type.

Using mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom I get
You must specify the file system type.

I can not figure this out, I have never had a problem doing mount this way, yes there are cd in the drive, even tried differnet cd's.

Any ideas?
Dan

[Guck Puppy]

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=16857.msg65295#msg65295

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[evilghost]

Why not try mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom ?

[Dan Williams]

Hi,
I then get:
wronf fs type, bad option bad superblock on /dev/hdc or to many mounted filesystems.
(could this be the ide device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
dan

[Dan Williams]

However,
I just tried:
try mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom and that worked.
Very strange, as it is ide not scsi.
Dan

[evilghost]

Very odd as well?  I've not seen that behavior before, but I'm glad you were able to get it mounted.

[Dan Williams]

I got it.
After applying update 4 to my clean 5.6 install it now works as intended.
dan