Mount problem

[Justin Denick]

Check to see if you are in the "cdrw" group. Please note, this may not be
the actual group name. Just `grep yourname /etc/group*` and compare the
results. Also see if the perms on /dev/hdc match those of /dev/hdd.

On 12/23/05, James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj at acm.org> wrote:
>
> Bruno Castro da Silva wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I have recently installed Kubuntu 5.10 and I'm running KDE 3.4.3. I'm
> > facing a problem while mounting my drives.
> >
> > My machine has 2 drives: one which is a CDRW (/dev/hdd) and one wich is
> > also a DVD recorder (/dev/hdc).
> >
> > My /etc/fstab is as follows:
> >
> > /dev/hda2       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro
> 0       1
> > /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
> > /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> > /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> > /dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> >
> > If I insert a disk into the DVD recorder, KDE promptly open a window
> > with media:/hdc and the automount works. Also, an icon appears on my
> > desktop.
> >
> > However, if I insert a disk into the CDRW drive, a window with the
> > following error appears:
> >
> > "An error occurred while loading media:/hdd:
> > The file or folder media:/hdd does not exist."
> >
> > My /media directory is like this:
> >
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 2005-12-19 23:34 cdrom -> cdrom0
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-19 23:34 cdrom0
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-19 23:34 cdrom1
> > lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    7 2005-12-19 23:34 floppy -> floppy0
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-12-19 23:34 floppy0
> >
> >
> > Can anyone give a hint on how to configure kde, or more specifically the
> > 'media-ioslave', so that it mounts my CDRW?
> >
> > ps: not only it doesn't show the 'media' window for hdd, but it also
> > does not mount automatically. However, a manual 'mount /media/cdrom0'
> > works perfectly, but even then the media:/ does not show the drive icon!
> >
> >
> > Any ideias, please? I've googled around and read the kde mailing list
> > but nothing helped.
>
> Your fstab is wrong.  I don't know if that is the cause of the problem:
>
> > /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0  auto   udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> > /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom1  auto   udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
>
> I don't know right off what "udf" does.  I have:
>
>         defaults,ro,noauto,users,unhide
>
> for my CD-ROM, naturally if it is "rw" you would change "ro" to "rw" (or
> just remove it since "rw" is the default).  So you would have:
>
> /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0  auto   defaults,noauto,users,unhide  0 0
>
> I don't know if this change would make it work.
>
> Some research indicates that UDF is another CD format so if your Kernel
>   has it and you need it you should probably add that as well.
>
> --
> JRT
>
>
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