[linux-audio-user] Problems mounting CDROM

[Tom Charles-Edwards]

> Message Received: Dec 16 2005, 03:51 PM
> From: "Nigel Henry" <cave.dnb at tiscali.fr>
> To: linux-audio-user at music.columbia.edu, tomcharles-edwards at fsmail.net
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [linux-audio-user] Problems mounting CDROM
>
> 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.
>
>

Hi there Nigel, thanks for replying.

/etc/group has:

cdrom:x:24:tom

so I guess I'm a member of that group already.

Cheers,

Tom