[plug] Cant access cdrom: Wrong medium type

[mpople at orbeng.com]

It dosnt matter if i specfy iso9660 it still says

mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: Wrong medium type
and puts the same messages in /var/log/messages
i can tyoe eject and it ejects it? which i thought was strange ??

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Holland [mailto:myk at golden.wattle.id.au]
Sent: Thursday, 4 October 2001 10:55 AM
To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Cant access cdrom: Wrong medium type


On Thu, 4 Oct 2001 mpople at orbeng.com wrote:

> [root at cusbert /]#mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
> mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: Wrong medium type

Mark,
So tell it what the medium type should be, ie iso9660. See mount(8).
(You may then find your new kernel lacks the iso9660 module)

Its best to have an entry for you cdrom in /etc/fstab - check the man
page.

ciao,
-- 
Mike Holland  <myk at golden.wattle.id.au>
			--==--
"Everybody is talking about the weather but nobody does anything
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