Re: Can't mount CD-ROM SOLVED!!

2000-08-12 Thread Simon Law
Ah... That's because music CDs are not written in ISO 9660 format. They are in Red Book Audio, which mount doesn't handle. (Why bother? There's no filesystem anyway...). cdplayer knows about audio, therefore it works. On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Dale Morris wrote: > Well then, let me explain: I had

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM SOLVED!!

2000-08-09 Thread kmself
Well then, no, you haven't really demonstrated much at all. Typically, playing music CDs is negotiated directly between the CDROM drive and your soundcard. There's no intermediation of the kernel, filesystems, or even your sound configuration involved (though some systems require a working sound

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM SOLVED!!

2000-08-09 Thread Dale Morris
I tried it with a cd containing proper filesystems and it works fine. It was late when I was working on this and I guess I posted to quickly. On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 03:07:57PM +0200 33, Jason Quigley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And what exactly makes you believe that it's okay to mount an aud

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM SOLVED!!

2000-08-09 Thread Jason Quigley
And what exactly makes you believe that it's okay to mount an audio CD? If it's a Windows or Macintosh machine - they have special drivers to make it appear that the CD is mounted. Cheers, Jason. --On Wednesday, August 9, 2000 4:15 -0700 Dale Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well then, let

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM SOLVED!!

2000-08-09 Thread Dale Morris
Well then, let me explain: I had a music cd in the drive. When I issued the command to mount, I got a wrong filesystem, bad block.. error message. But when I executed the program cdplayer, it scanned the cd and began playing it. Thus far, I haven't taken the time to dig up a linux cd and see if it

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM SOLVED!!

2000-08-09 Thread kmself
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 10:01:02PM -0700, Dale Morris wrote: > It's working!! That's rather less illuminating than information as to how you solved the problem. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://www.opensales.org What p

Re: Can't mount CD-ROM SOLVED!!

2000-08-09 Thread Dale Morris
It's working!! -- "Make voyages, attempt them, there's nothing else." --Tennessee Williams