[ILUG] Combined DVD/CDRW

[John J. Allen]

Mark Page wrote:

> Having a small problem.
> 
> Have a combo drive which is working fine under Windows XP and is also
> picked up under Mandrake 8.1.
> 
> Linux will happily mount an audio or data CD but point blank refuses to
> mount a CD-R with data on it citing 'wrong fstype bad superblock on
> /dev/scd0'
> 
> The output of /etc/fstab is as follows:
> 


Sounds like your CD reader is having problems reading the superblock
(I have seen this before, even on ordinary CDs), and as a result cannot
determine the FS type.

Try settings the FS type explicitly to iso9660


> 
> /dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
> /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
> 
> I can see no reference to an iso9660 nor any reference to /dev/hdc. Is
> this necessary?
> 
> /etc/lilo.conf reads as follows:
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> 	label=linux
> 	root=/dev/hda6
> 	append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount quiet"
> 	vga=788
> 	read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> 	label=linux-nonfb
> 	root=/dev/hda6
> 	append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount"
> 	read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> 	label=failsafe
> 	root=/dev/hda6
> 	append=" hdc=ide-scsi devfs=mount failsafe"
> 	read-only
> other=/dev/hda2
> 	label=NT
> 	table=/dev/hda
> other=/dev/fd0
> 	label=floppy
> 	unsafe
> 
> The 'append' is there as I understood it should be from all the docs I
> have read.
> 
> I have tried to burn to the CD-R and have received confirmation that all
> was successful but then any attempt to mount the CD-R fails miserably.
> 
> Any assistance much appreciated.
> 
> 
> 



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