Unable To Mount CDROM In RedHat 8.0

[FluxAnomaly]

Hi, i'm trying to mount my cdrom drive in redhat in the following way

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom but it throws a lot of io errors and it says it has busy status, but i can use it fine on winxp y to listen audio cds in linux (without mounting)

i have no idea what it is

when i run dmesg it shows the cd cdriva as ide atapi 52x, wich is correct but then mount fails saying also that it doesn't recognize the filesystem.

any ideas?

 

[clonny2]

You can not mount an audio cd. Just use a cd player.

Audio CD's do not contain an ISO9660 filesystem.

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[FluxAnomaly]

i know that, i said i can listen audio cd without mounting, the problem is with cds with files

 

[clonny2]

Have you tried mounting without the -t iso9660?

mount /dev/cdrom and see what happens.

after it either fails or succeeds, is there any info in a tail /var/log/messages?

>---------------------------------------Lawrence Feldman
SR. QA. Engineer SNAP Appliance
lfeldman@snapappliance.com

 

[FluxAnomaly]

i tried without the -t switch it ask for it

if i try /dev/cdrom it says it's not a valid block device
since it's not in /dev

i'll check the file thanks.

could it be some issue with the mother board, i had problems to install it, it was an apic issue i think

 

[FluxAnomaly]

hi, i checked /var/log/Messages it says that the irq status is bussy, and something like the drive is not ready for command, when i compiled the kernel i placed set_multimode on because it told something about this error, but it did nothing, also i have tried with different cd drives so it's not the drive

any clues?