im running suse 8.1 and im having problems with my cdrom drives. i have one pextor12/10/32 cd burner, and one 8x generic ATAPI cdrom. i have the cdburner in /etc/fstab as /dev/cdrecorder and it mounts to /media/cdrecorder/
i have the cdrom in fstab as /dev/cdrom and it mounts to: (you guessed it) /media/cdrom/
now when i put in a standard data cd, like quake 3 arena, i can mount it on the cdrom with no problems, but i cant mount it on the cdburner, i recieve an input out put error and mount complains that it could not determine the filesystem type, an none was specified. now heres the part of this problem that i find kinda weird, when i want to mount a music cd on the cdrom, i get the input/output error. and i cant mount anything on the pextor cdburner, at all. now i just got a new computer case, and while i was replacing all my hardware into the new case i made sure that everything was plugged in tight, as i thought maybe this was the problem with the cdrom, loose ide cable, but nope still have the same problem. thanks for any help!

Try specifying the filesystem type with the mount command.
All standard data CD's should mount with "-t iso9660".
I'm not sure about music CD's though - I don't know if they have a filesystem to speak of...

on the plextor drive which is the cd burner that dosnt work either, mount responds:
wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrecorder, or too 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?)
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when i try with the command 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/' i get:
mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: no medium found
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'mount -t iso9660 /dev/sda /mnt/'
mount: /dev/sda is not a valid block device
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so no luck with that, just to restate the problem, the cdrecorder (plextor) cant mount anything, dosnt work. the cdrom, can mount normal data cd's, like quake3 and burned cds with mp3s on them (burned not from my computer where my burner dosnt work..) however, the cdrom can not mount music cds.

thanks anyway though. what else could it be?

Shot-in-the-dark:

Have you made sure that your jumper settings are "legal and correct"? Windows will usually ignore these (which is NOT right) - however, most UNIX OS's require your box to be correctly setup.

I know this to be quite true for FreeBSD!

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hmm, i never even thought of that. i have 2 hard drives on the first IDE slot, master and slave, those work. i shall double check today and i will post back and let you guys know if they are. in the mean time any other ideas? thanks again!

nope my jumper settings were/are correct. both cdroms are on the second ide bus, the plextor cdburner is the master driver, and the 8x is the slave.

OK - so how about changing the arrangement in the box! Make your current "slave" hard disk the "master" on the second IDE, and make the current "master" cd drive the "slave" of the current "master" hard disk! If you see what I mean...

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