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    OpneSUSE 11.1 cant mount cd-rw/dvd-rw

    when I try to mount /dev/cdrom I get this:

    mount: /dev/sr0: unknown device

    To look where the symlink is going I do this:

    ls -l /dev/ | grep cdrom

    And get:

    lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 18 07:54 cdrom -> sr0

    So I look at what cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info and I get:

    CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17

    drive name: sr0
    drive speed: 24
    drive # of slots: 1
    Can close tray: 1
    Can open tray: 1
    Can lock tray: 1
    Can change speed: 1
    Can select disk: 0
    Can read multisession: 1
    Can read MCN: 1
    Reports media changed: 1
    Can play audio: 1
    Can write CD-R: 1
    Can write CD-RW: 1
    Can read DVD: 1
    Can write DVD-R: 1
    Can write DVD-RAM: 0
    Can read MRW: 1
    Can write MRW: 1
    Can write RAM: 1




    Here is the output from dmesg:

    EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
    udevd version 128 started
    scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5
    sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
    Linux agpgart interface v0.103
    intel_rng: FWH not detected
    input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input2
    pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
    sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
    Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
    sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
    input: Power Button (FF) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXPWRBN:00/input/input3
    agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: Intel 865 Chipset
    agpgart-intel 0000:00:00.0: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
    i801_smbus 0000:00:1f.3: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
    ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
    input: Power Button (CM) as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/device:00/PNP0C0C:00/input/input4
    iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0
    shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
    iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.03 (30-Apr-2008)
    iTCO_wdt: failed to reset NO_REBOOT flag, reboot disabled by hardware
    iTCO_wdt: No card detected
    ACPI: Power Button (CM) [VBTN]
    Intel ICH 0000:00:1f.5: PCI INT B -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17

    Here is what lies at the bottom of the dmesg when I put in a cd:

    sr0: CDROM not ready yet.
    sr0: CDROM not ready yet.
    sr0: CDROM not ready yet.
    sr0: CDROM not ready yet.
    sr0: CDROM not ready yet.
    sr0: CDROM not ready yet.

    ad infinitum

    No fstab entries were in place for my cdrom. So I put some in:

    /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto noauto,user,sync 0 0

    And I have done various plays on that line like tryin to put in iso9660 and such.
    Running ps -ef | grep hald gets me this:

    103 1728 1 0 Jun18 ? 00:00:01 /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes
    root 1794 1728 0 Jun18 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
    root 1805 1794 0 Jun18 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3
    root 1831 1794 0 Jun18 ? 00:00:01 hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/fd0 because it is explicitlydisabled
    103 1836 1794 0 Jun18 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
    root 1838 1794 0 Jun18 ? 00:00:34 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
    root 7698 7572 0 23:23 pts/2 00:00:00 grep hald

    I have tried using different disk and I have googled my brains out. I have been at this for a couple days now trying a combination of things and I'm gettin no where. The LED on the burner lights up and the drive will spin, but I cant get it to mount and I cant get any application to recongnize the drive. Any ideas?

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    Why are you trying to mount it? SUSE hasn't required mounting manually in years. Just put a disk in, and with KDE or Gnome, it'll pop up and ask what you want to do.

    If that doesn't work open up Yast2, go to hardware, and the CD / DVD drives, and make sure the drive works under Linux.

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    Mounting

    Hi,

    What I usually do is just mount it as a virtual image to a DVD-ROM and boot it from there. It is far easier and much more secure that way.

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    Quote Originally Posted by kevomate66 View Post
    Hi,

    What I usually do is just mount it as a virtual image to a DVD-ROM and boot it from there. It is far easier and much more secure that way.
    He didn't say anything about booting, and how is this more secure exactly?

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    no dice

    Gore:
    I tried putting in several disk and nothing comes up. I went under hardware in YAST but theres no cdrom icon, so I went into hardware info and it found all the specs for my cdrom. At the bottom it says notready:yes So I'm not sure if that has something to do with it. Regardless I'm still not able to access any disk that I put in my cdrom. Any other ideas?

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    Try a different CD rom!
    " And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be" --Miguel Cervantes

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    Already workin on that. But theres really no reason why I should have to resort to that. The system is recongnizing it fine, it's a configuration problem. I'm still googlin tryin to find something but I'm still open to suggestions.

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    Something interesting, if I do a media check via YAST on the cd-rom it says "Cannot read medium in the drive /dev/sr0." Even though there is no disk in the drive. Whhaaat....?

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    Quote Originally Posted by lionhearted2005 View Post
    Something interesting, if I do a media check via YAST on the cd-rom it says "Cannot read medium in the drive /dev/sr0." Even though there is no disk in the drive. Whhaaat....?
    Umm, Media check as in... "CD-ROM" Media... It's trying to check the CD-ROM for problems.

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    Hi there lion~,

    Perhaps you just have a simple hardware failure? I have seen numerous cases of hardware components being recognised by the system but they just won't work.

    I would normally connect them to another machine to confirm that they were dead, but in this case I would suggest going into the BIOS and making the CD/DVD the first boot option.

    Insert another distros boot CD and reboot. If it works then you know your hardware is basically OK. You can even do this with an old Windows CD or a bootable applications CD.

    If it won't boot then the only other thing I think you might try is flashing the CD/DVDs firmware.

    From a research viewpoint try Googling for the make and model of CD/DVD and searching in the results for Open Suse. It just might be some sort of hardware compatibility issue?

    The media check error is a little misleading I suspect. It is looking to check the media but cannot actually see the drive......so it cannot see the media in it or detect that there isn't any. I guess it gives you the closest error message it can find?
    Last edited by nihil; June 23rd, 2009 at 10:14 AM.

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