Mount problem

[Rick Miles]

I just spent News Year night at a friend's place and he was havung problems 
accessing his cdrom drive and dvd drive. I'm home and with the experience 
straight in my mind here's what I had to do to get the dvd working for him in 
kaffeine as a user

delete the old /dev /dvd
create a new one with ln -s /dev/hdc dev dvd 
chmod 777 /dev/hdc re-dedit his /etc/fstab as such:
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       auto        noauto,users,ro  0   0
which is the standard entry I always use in my workstations.

It works now.


Bruno Castro da Silva is a darn nice person I don't care what anybody says!
> Hello all,
>
> A week ago I sent an email asking for help regarding mounting problems on
> KDE. Specifically, I have a CDRW/DVD-ROM drive and when I put a disk it
> fails with the following error:
>
> "Error while loading media:/hdd
>
> An error occurred while loading media:/hdd:
> The file or folder media:/hdd does not exist."
>
>
> I tried several configurations in /etc/fstab, including the suggestions
> James and Justin gave me. Since then I tried a lot of other possibilities
> and googled around, but found no answer. The strange part is that my
> CDRW/DVD-ROM drive can automount normal CD disks, but fails specifically
> when I insert a DVD a disk (both burned DVDs and movies, etc).
>
> I suspect that the problem might have something to do with the device
> /dev/hdd but I couldn't find anything on google.
>
>
> ps: my fstab is currently using the defaults which came with my Kubuntu
> distro:
> /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
>
> /dev/hdc is my DVD-RW drive, which works fine. /dev/hdd is my CDRW/DVD-ROM
> drive which can only automount CD disks, but not DVD disks.
>
>
> Can someone please give me a hint or any suggestion on this problem? It's
> really annoying not being able to automount DVD disks! :-)
>
>
> Thanks in advance an thanks for the support so far!
>
>
> Bruno
>
> 2005/12/23, Bruno Castro da Silva <brunocs at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks for the hints, James and Justin.
> >
> > I tried to update /etc/fstab with your suggestion:
> > > dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0  auto   defaults,noauto,users,unhide  0 0
> >
> > but it didn't work. I also tried to use a line that I used in my old
> > redhat system:
> >
> > /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0  udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> >
> > which didn't work either.
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > Thanks, but I tried with and without UDF and it that option didn't make
> > any difference.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > I do belong to the 'cdrom' group. Permissions on /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd
> > are exactly the same, and I just tried to give a+rwx to both but the same
> > error still occurs when I insert the CDROM:
> >
> > "Error while loading media:/hdd
> >
> > An error occurred while loading media:/hdd:
> > The file or folder media:/hdd does not exist."
> >
> >
> >
> > Any more ideas?
> >
> > Thanks for the support so far!
> >
> >
> > Bruno

-- 
Cheers,

Rick Miles

Movement stopped is no movement,
and rest set in motion is no rest.

Written on Sweetmorn, the 1st of Chaos, 3172 
http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~rickfrm/

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