I'm having trouble mounting CDs in my Toshiba SCSI CD drive. As soon as
I put a CD in (data or audio), the little green light on the front
flashes about 10 times, and then lights up permanently. The LED only
goes out when I eject the disk.
When I attempt to mount a (perfectly good) CD, I get;
humbug:root> mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
or too many mounted file systems
I was away on holiday for a week, and when I got back I powered on my
machine and everything seemed to start up normally (but I'd left an
audio CD in the drive and the Adaptec 2940 BIOS spent a long time
trying to determine if the CD was bootable before it went on to detect
my hard disk).
Before I went away I was using cdparanoia without any problems, and
normal CDs were mounting without incident.
I tried fiddling with the permissions, changing them from;
br--r----- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Dec 1 20:25 /dev/scd0
to;
brwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 11, 0 Dec 1 20:25 /dev/scd0
but (unsurprisingly) it's not made any difference.
Does it sound like a hardware problem, or could it be that something
needs resetting? Could it be Linux? A cold reboot doesn't seem to help.
TIA - I desperately want to do some more ripping!
--
Graham
