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402296 2005-11-06 09:03:00 mount: block device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

This is the message I get when using a cd rom. I can, of course, view say photos on the cd.
Audio cd won't work.

Here is the cdroms permissions

tux cdroms # ls -l
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Nov 6 20:50 cdrom0 -> ../hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Nov 6 20:50 cdrom1 -> ../hdd

Can someone give me a bit of help on this one please; how and what to, I'd be most obliged.
jcr1 (893)
402297 2005-11-06 09:28:00 Have a look thru this lot.
www.google.com
hth
johnboy (217)
402298 2005-11-06 09:29:00 You have two CD or DVD drives in your machine - hdc and hdd?

How are you accessing the drives, exploring with your window manager or via desktop icons for the drives? For the audio CD's, are you making sure the playback app is looking at the correct drive for the CD?
Jen (38)
402299 2005-11-06 09:38:00 Which distribution are you using? Fedora Core 3 has a fault where you need to change the permissions to get an audio file to run:

At the root terminal type: chmod 664 /dev/hdc
johnd (85)
402300 2005-11-17 03:39:00 At last, I can play audio cd's on Gentoo.
I found an old post of Chill's, (Google in desperation) and the last post is;

"Chilling_Silently
11-01-2004, 11:39 PM
Thanks for that,

All I needed was:
chmod 4744 /bin/mount
and on /bin/umount (I did it on /usr/bin/eject just in case too).

Worked a charm! Thanks so much!

Now to make a new post with my last question.. CD Playback... ;-)"

Did this & it didn't work, so out of curiosity I did;
chmod 4744 /dev/cdroms/cdrom0
and that works fine with KsCD, which is all I need anyway.
How do I make that command work when on reboot? As for me, it's just a nuisance to have to type it each time. and, are there any implications, with what I've done, that someone can think of?
jcr1 (893)
402301 2005-11-17 04:16:00 mount: block device /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 is write-protected, mounting read-only

all cdroms unless the disk drive is a burner are read only
beama (111)
402302 2005-11-17 11:06:00 You can add the line to /etc/conf.d/local.start

It'll run it upon boot :)
Chilling_Silence (9)
402303 2005-11-18 04:47:00 Thanks Chill, :)
That worked; I referred back to the handbook, but couldn't find it for looking.
There's a lot of little (& some not so liitle) tricks, tweaks etc. like this & so I don't forget, coz I do, I'm putting them into a folder in home called handy tips -easy to remember where they are :thumbs: .
jcr1 (893)
402304 2005-11-18 05:35:00 There's a lot of little (& some not so liitle) tricks, tweaks etc. like this & so I don't forget, coz I do, I'm putting them into a folder in home called handy tips -easy to remember where they are :thumbs: .I have a notebook for exactly the same thing... little tricks like patching kernels, /etc/init.d/whatever, grep and so on

Am taking note of the 4744 thing though, I used to use submount to auto mount, might try this and see how it goes :)
Myth (110)
402305 2005-11-18 08:57:00 Wow. That all sounds like fun! And here I was having the mad idea I might try a dual boot of Linux... :rolleyes: pctek (84)
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