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Thread ID: 21989	2002-07-09 07:11:00	Linux Mandrake CD drive problems	dodocaptain (944)	Press F1

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60964	2002-07-09 07:11:00	I have recently install linux mandrake 7.0. Everything worked, but my cd drive wouldn't go. I had linux mandrake 6.1 installed, and the cd drive worked ok, but I had to uninstall it when I upgraded by hard drive. Now, when I click on my cd drive icon it says: Could not list directory contents file:/mnt/cdrom/ & acceses the floppy drive. Linuxconfig's settings are: Partition: /mnt/cdrom Type: supermount Mount Point: /mnt/cdrom Other options: fs=vfat The cd drive is a hp cd-writer 9100 series. Can anyone help me fix it?	dodocaptain (944)
60965	2002-07-10 04:17:00	It won't like the fs. :-( CDs are iso9660, not vfat. :D First check what the device is by ls -l /dev/cdrom It should be a link to, say, /dev/hdc . If it's not, do dmesg | more From that work out what device it is. If it's /dev/hdc , try a mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom If it's not hdc, use whichever it is. I tend to use command line mounts rather than GUIs ... I can work quicker like that, so I'm not sure how you tell the GUI stuff about the fs. You might be able to edit /etc/fstab ... the "naughty" vfat will be in the line for /dev/cdrom. Change it to "iso9660". That might be enough. (make sure the drive is unmounted when you do this). But iot might automatically c hange back. My RH 7.2 system became stable when i killed the kudzu clever stuff, which does all this PnP reconfiguring and getting things wrong automatically. I think it's an attempt to make Linux (not) work like Windows. :-( ]:)	Graham L (2)
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