Unable to mount cdrom0

[Tholley]

I have built an old machine and installed 9.10 on it using live CD, so the cdrom was working when I did the install, but now, while I'm checking to make sure music cd's will play, I get nothing.

I go to places and select cdrom0 (which is the only cdrom showing) and I get this error message. Along with what I put in the title, it also says

"mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist"

I have put 3 different cd players in and all the same.

[sisco311]

Open a terminal (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal)

and post the output of:

sudo lshw -C disk

and

cat /etc/fstab

[lrcaballero]

Hi there!! Welcome to Linux world.....
Insert a cd of your preference and restart your computer, it should show one's computer starts... this is the only thing I can think of right-now. Also check for threads related to cd mount, cd drive, cd drive would not recognize cd's........at search tab!!! Good Luck....

Luis

[Tholley]

maria@maria-desktop:~$ sudo lshw -C disk
[sudo] password for maria:
*-disk
description: ATA Disk
product: WDC WD400BB-00GF
vendor: Western Digital
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sda
version: 09.0
serial: WD-WMAKA1308685
size: 37GiB (40GB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=06404b08
*-disk
description: SCSI Disk
physical id: 0.0.0
bus info: scsi@2:0.0.0
logical name: /dev/sdb
size: 984MiB (1031MB)
capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
configuration: signature=00163a1f
maria@maria-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=b7c08c9c-1ef4-4dbc-a5e9-e04e46faf9ab / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=b37e469c-d199-4d18-a9c3-66f3d297c720 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
maria@maria-desktop:~$

[Tholley]

bump...

[ukripper]

bump...

can you post output of the following command:

dmesg | grep ATA

[Tholley]

can you post output of the following command:

dmesg | grep ATA

I should have waited until I got home from work to bump...

I will post the output as soon as I can, when I get back home.

Thanks!

[Tholley]

ok... here is this output...

maria@maria-desktop:~$ dmesg | grep ATA
[ 0.000000] #3 [0000100000 - 00008a80a0] TEXT DATA BSS ==> [0000100000 - 00008a80a0]
[ 2.102420] ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x1f0 ctl 0x3f6 bmdma 0xff00 irq 14
[ 2.102431] ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x170 ctl 0x376 bmdma 0xff08 irq 15
[ 2.269544] ata1.00: ATA-5: WDC WD400BB-00GFA0, 09.01B09, max UDMA/100
[ 2.285665] scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA WDC WD400BB-00GF 09.0 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
maria@maria-desktop:~$

[Tholley]

bump again...

how come everytime someone asks me to post an output from terminal, I never get back a reply...

does it look that bad...

[ukripper]

bump again...

how come everytime someone asks me to post an output from terminal, I never get back a reply...

does it look that bad...

naa man I live in uk and time here is GMT when you post I'd be either sleeping or it is off my working hours.

back to your problem.

Now can you reboot and go into BIOS and see if you can see your CD there.