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CD fails to show contents -- How to solve it?
Dear friends:
I have two Atapi drive: one is a CD/CDWriter (/dev/hdc mounted on /media/cdrecorder) the other is a DVD/CD drive (/dev/hdd mounted on /media/cdrom). My DVD drive (dev/hdd or /media/cdrom) works perfectly. I can play videos it, and I can also use it as a CD. I just transferred data from a data CD to my Linux via this /dev/hdd. When I opened the drive with my File Manager, it showed the contents of the drive, first of my DVD movie, then of my data CD. And CD/CDWriter does correctly record data. I used K3b and compiled a CD and burned it. But when I try to read the CD after burning it, I can't. The contents do not show up. I asked about this before. At first, I thought it was just a cosmetic matter. I was getting an I/O error message for my CD/CDWriter and my DVD during bootup. So long as the drives worked, that was fine with me. The CD/CDWriter plays my music CD's, the DVD plays my movie DVD's. So far so good. However, although I installed my Scientific Linux system from data CD's (using my , now it turns out that I cannot transfer any of my data files from a data CD to my computer via my CD/CDWriter drive. I can only do it via my DVD drive, whose contents show up correctly in File Manager. The reason I had to use my DVD/CD drive to transfer my files to my computer is that my regular CD drive (CD/CDWriter or /dev/hdc) cannot read any of the contents. None of the contents show up in File Manager or in the terminal. Please see below: [sher@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost sher]# cd /media/cdrecorder [root@localhost cdrecorder]# ls [root@localhost cdrecorder]# [sher@localhost ~]$ su Password: [root@localhost sher]# mount /dev/hdd [root@localhost sher]# mount /dev/hdc mount: No medium found [root@localhost sher]# mount /media/cdrom mount: /dev/hdd already mounted or /media/cdrom busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdd is already mounted on /media/cdrom [root@localhost sher]# mount /media/cdrecorder mount: No medium found [root@localhost sher]# Here is my /etc/fstab: [root@localhost sher]# exit exit [sher@localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fstab # This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdd /media/cdrom auto noauto,user,exec,ro 0 0 /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder autonoauto,user,exec,ro 0 0 /dev/sda4 /media/IOMEGA vfat pamconsole,noatime,sync,fscontext=system_u:object_ r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t ,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 [sher@localhost ~]$ I do not have this problem in Windows (dual-boot), so I know it's not the drive. I imagine this is a software configuration issue. If so, how can I correctly configure my /dev/hdc CD/CDWriter so it can show its contents in File Manager. Thank you so much. Benjamin |
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Try 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc' and see what happens. On a side note, could you test the cd drive using a live cd such as knoppix? It might be a linux hardware problem, or it could be specific to your distro, and it would be good to find out which, if any, is causing this problem.
Last edited by kage; June 27th, 2005 at 07:58 PM. |
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Dear kage:
You got it!!! That's exactly what the system was asking for. It need to know the file system. See below: [root@localhost etc]# mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder -t iso9660 mount: No medium found [root@localhost etc]# mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder -t iso9660 mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only [root@localhost etc]# cd /media/cdrecorder [root@localhost cdrecorder]# ls all-20050412.tar.bz2 phpbb_db_backup.sql RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm [root@localhost cdrecorder]# Thanks a million! Benjamin |
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Dear kage:
Forget the music CD part. Here is what happens: A music CD will play but not show its contents in File Manager either in my CD/CDWriter drive or in my DVD/CD drive. But a data CD will. Why? Because, as I found out, a music CD does NOT have a file system at all. So, there is nothing for Linux to recognize. But why then is a DVD able to display its contents? Is there a difference between a CD and a DVD on this point? Thank you. Benjamin Last edited by Delphi123; June 27th, 2005 at 10:22 PM. |
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Problem Solved!
The music CD DOES shows its contents, not in the File Manager but in the CD player. KSCD shows the contents perfectly while playing them. Solved! Benjamin |
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Glad you got it all working!
-kage |
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