[linux-audio-user] Problems mounting CDROM

[Nigel Henry]

On Friday 16 December 2005 15:42, Tom Charles-Edwards wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> sorry if this is a little basic for you guys but I can't mount CDROMs. If I
> do:
>
> mount /dev/scd0
>
> I get:
>
> /dev/scd0 is not a valid block device
>
> My /etc/fstab is:
>
> /dev/scd0        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
>
> The output of ls -l /dev/cdrom0  is:
>
> brw-rw----  1 root cdrom 11, 0 2004-05-21 02:22 /dev/scd0
>
> The output of lsmod is:
>
> Module                  Size  Used by    Not tainted
> snd-seq-oss            30752   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> snd-seq-midi            3968   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> snd-seq-midi-event      3648   0 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi]
> snd-seq                41968   5 (autoclean) [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi
> snd-seq-midi-event] mousedev                3832   1
> keybdev                 1892   0 (unused)
> hid                    18628   0 (unused)
> input                   3296   0 [mousedev keybdev hid]
> af_packet              13896   1 (autoclean)
> uhci                   23772   0 (unused)
> ehci-hcd               16172   0 (unused)
> usbcore                56684   1 [hid uhci ehci-hcd]
> snd-intel8x0           21452   1
> snd-ac97-codec         56604   0 [snd-intel8x0]
> gameport                1436   0 [snd-intel8x0]
> snd-mpu401-uart         4096   0 [snd-intel8x0]
> snd-hdsp               40520   1
> snd-pcm-oss            39944   0
> snd-mixer-oss          13880   2 [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-pcm                65664   0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-hdsp snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-timer              16868   0 [snd-seq snd-pcm]
> snd-hwdep               5280   0 [snd-hdsp]
> snd-page-alloc          6552   0 [snd-intel8x0 snd-hdsp snd-pcm]
> snd-rawmidi            14656   0 [snd-seq-midi snd-mpu401-uart snd-hdsp]
> snd-seq-device          4324   0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi snd-seq
> snd-rawmidi] snd                    36132   0 [snd-seq-oss snd-seq-midi
> snd-seq-midi-event snd-seq snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-mpu401-uart
> snd-hdsp snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm snd-timer snd-hwdep snd-rawmidi
> snd-seq-device] soundcore               3876   7 [snd]
> 8139too                13896   1
> mii                     2096   0 [8139too]
> crc32                   2864   0 [8139too]
> ohci1394               23024   0 (unused)
> ieee1394              183556   0 [ohci1394]
> sr_mod                 12216   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> isofs                  23480   0 (autoclean)
> ide-scsi                8656   0
> scsi_mod               89312   2 [sr_mod ide-scsi]
> ide-cd                 28128   0 (autoclean)
> cdrom                  25344   0 (autoclean) [sr_mod ide-cd]
> ext3                   71144   8 (autoclean)
> jbd                    40312   8 (autoclean) [ext3]
> ide-detect               288   0 (autoclean) (unused)
> piix                    7496   2 (autoclean)
> ide-disk               12704   9 (autoclean)
> ide-core               98268   9 (autoclean) [ide-scsi ide-cd ide-detect
> piix ide-disk] unix                   16236  33 (autoclean)
>
> I'm using DeMuDi 1.2 with a 2.4 kernel.
>
> Any help much appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tom

Hi Tom. IIRC you need to be a member of the cdrom group on Debian based 
installs. have a look in /etc/group to see if there is a cdrom group there. 
The Debian command as root would be. #usermod -G cdrom your_user_name. All 
the best. Nigel.