CDROM mounting

[Greg Viola]

Hi:

First, I want to thank you guys for helping me unravel how to get the
install disks created from the  FC3 ISO download files.  Worked great.

Now I am trying to use the CD drive (which is fairly old, but its the
one I used to install FC3) , and I get an error - "cannot read
superblock" - when I insert a CD into the drive and FC3 tries to mount
the CD.  CD reads fine in WinXP.  Get the same error with commercial
audio CDs.  Can't open the drive either once I get this error. XMMS and
GRIP both report drive errors.  CD Roast wants me to make the drives
emulate SCSI, but I haven't tried that yet.

Also, how do I get FC3 to recognize my second CD drive (brand new CD/DVD
drive)

Both drives are on the second IDE controller.  The old drive is master,
new one slave

Thanks

Greg Viola

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:41 -0500, Greg Viola wrote:
>  Hi:
>  
>  First, I want to thank you guys for helping me unravel how to get the
>  install disks created from the  FC3 ISO download files.  Worked great.
>  
>  Now I am trying to use the CD drive (which is fairly old, but its the
>  one I used to install FC3) , and I get an error - "cannot read
>  superblock" - when I insert a CD into the drive and FC3 tries to mount
>  the CD.  CD reads fine in WinXP.  Get the same error with commercial
>  audio CDs.  Can't open the drive either once I get this error. XMMS
>  and GRIP both report drive errors.  CD Roast wants me to make the
>  drives emulate SCSI, but I haven't tried that yet.
>  
>  Also, how do I get FC3 to recognize my second CD drive (brand new
>  CD/DVD drive)
>  
>  Both drives are on the second IDE controller.  The old drive is
>  master, new one slave
>   
You don't say which distro you are using.
If it is FC3 you do not need the scsi emulation for the CDROM.

You did not say what hardware you have with the CDROMs.  If you are
using a cable-select cable, then you must jumper the drives to cable
select.  If you are using an older 40 wire cable (non-cable select) then
you must jumper the drives to master/slave.

I would also recommend that the newest CDROM drive be the master on that
bus.

I would expect the problem with reading the drive and mount/dismount
problems are related to not properly seeing the CDROM.  Fix the hardware
problem first and then if the problem with dismounting continues ask
again.

>  Thanks
>  
>  Greg Viola

[micheal]

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:06 -0600, Jeff Vian wrote:
>  On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 20:41 -0500, Greg Viola wrote:
>  > Hi:
>  > 
>  > First, I want to thank you guys for helping me unravel how to get the
>  > install disks created from the  FC3 ISO download files.  Worked great.
>  > 
>  > Now I am trying to use the CD drive (which is fairly old, but its the
>  > one I used to install FC3) , and I get an error - "cannot read
>  > superblock" - when I insert a CD into the drive and FC3 tries to mount
>  > the CD.  CD reads fine in WinXP.  Get the same error with commercial
>  > audio CDs.  Can't open the drive either once I get this error. XMMS
>  > and GRIP both report drive errors.  CD Roast wants me to make the
>  > drives emulate SCSI, but I haven't tried that yet.
>  > 
>  > Also, how do I get FC3 to recognize my second CD drive (brand new
>  > CD/DVD drive)
>  > 
>  > Both drives are on the second IDE controller.  The old drive is
>  > master, new one slave
>  > 
>  
>  You don't say which distro you are using.
>  If it is FC3 you do not need the scsi emulation for the CDROM.
>  
>  You did not say what hardware you have with the CDROMs.  If you are
>  using a cable-select cable, then you must jumper the drives to cable
>  select.  If you are using an older 40 wire cable (non-cable select) then
>  you must jumper the drives to master/slave.
>  
>  I would also recommend that the newest CDROM drive be the master on that
>  bus.
>  
>  I would expect the problem with reading the drive and mount/dismount
>  problems are related to not properly seeing the CDROM.  Fix the hardware
>  problem first and then if the problem with dismounting continues ask
>  again.
>  
>  > Thanks
>  > 
>  > Greg Viola 
>   

Dumb question, have you tried updating udev,  I seem to remember this
problem when I first upgraded to FC3. 

MC