unable to access cdrom (Mandrake 10.1)

[harry000]

Hello friends,

 

It was woking yesterday, but suddenly, i am not able to access my cdrom.

 

I noticed the problem when installing somethong with urpmi. It gives me error messages saying that it can't access cdrom (similar).

 

I think Mandrake is not automounting my cdrom (it is cd writer actualy).

 

Here is the content of the /etc/fstab file :

/dev/hdb5 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/win_e ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
/dev/hda7 /mnt/win_f ntfs umask=0,nls=iso8859-1,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb6 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

 

The /etc/fstab is not showing any entry related to cdrom.

So i guess this is the problem.

 

But i don't know how to fix it.

need help

 

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[arctic]

Try with the following line in fstab:

/dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-15,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

 

Remember to replace X with the appropriate entry (e.g. hdc or hdd or hde, whatever you have)

 

It could be that the drive died in a worst-case-scenario. Is it still accessable in Windows?

[dexter11]

Alternatively you can add cdrom through MCC if you prefer GUI.