CD-ROM, CD-RW, and Floppy drives.Forum: Other Help Topics Topic: CD-ROM, CD-RW, and Floppy drives. started by: beanis64 Posted by beanis64 on Mar. 21 2004,18:00
Why won't any of these work. I have searched any file that seemed relevant, but none of them have the files in them. I even put a cd player I downloaded to play the cd when it is inserted, but nothing happens when I put a cd in. It's like the computer does'nt even recognize them.
Posted by TyphoonMentat on Mar. 21 2004,19:07
Have you heard of mounting? You need to do that first before you can access your drives. For instance, to mount a floppy:mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy Then access it at /mnt/floppy. Posted by beanis64 on Mar. 21 2004,20:46
When I do that it gives me a message that says...root@box:/home/damnsmall# mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device Posted by beanis64 on Mar. 21 2004,23:17
I can mount the floppy drive to /floppy, but I cannot read anything in the folder, or write anything into the folder.Also, how do you unmount a folder(what is the command). I tried umount but it said that the unmount command was not found. Posted by Grim on Mar. 22 2004,10:30
1.) From the menu click on enhance >icons etc.2.) Use mount.app that appears in the slit to mount your devices 3.) that should get you fixed Posted by beanis64 on Mar. 22 2004,21:40
When I do that I get this error...Device not ready Unable to mount the device at this time. There are typically three reasons this might be. 1) The device isn't quite ready yet ( you just closed the cd-rom tray). 2) The media is unreadable. 3) The mount point directory is in use by another program. This happens for all of them. What do you recommend that I do now. Also, I read on a website that Linux does not currently support USB CD-RW's, but the page was dated 2000. Is that still true today? EDIT: I have the floppy working now, but the cdrom and cd burner still wont mount. Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 23 2004,03:26
It depends on the USB CD-RW device. If the device supports the USB Mass Storage standard protocol, then it is supported in Linux.Sometimes even if it does not support the standard protocol, you can use it in Linux if someone has written a driver specifically for the device. For example, I use a Micro Solutions Backpack CD recorder with the Linux firmware patch that was made by the company. It works fine in my distribution of choice (Peanut Linux). I would expect that it would also work fine in DSL except I would have to download and install the drivers every time I used the LiveCD. Another way to mount/unmount a drive is to use Emelfm file manager. Go to the /mount directory and right-click on the directory (in the right side window) that you wish to mount. Then choose "Mount" from the context menu. Then double-click on the directory again and you will see the contents of the drive. For floppy or additional CDROM/CDRW you may need to go to /mount/auto, because for example the /mount/floppy isn't a real directory mountpoint and is actually a simlink pointing to /mount/auto/floppy. Good Luck. Posted by beanis64 on Mar. 23 2004,04:19
Yeah, I've tried using Emelfm. I've searched and searched. The ones in auto don't work. I have no idea what to do. I don't know why the floppy drive works. What's even more strange is that when I use the eject command, the cd tray ejects. Huh?
Posted by cbagger01 on Mar. 24 2004,01:32
Your first CDROM drive is usually already mounted from the top directory tree under /cdromAt least this is true when you boot from the LiveCD. Try looking there. |