[PLUG] "No medium found"

[Robert Kopp]

--- Rick Konold <cccs at teleport.com> wrote:
It may be the case that you are doing
> something like this:
> > |
> > |     mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> > |
> > | That should be fine except ``/dev/cdrom'' points
> to a device that does
> > | not exist.
> > |
I'd like to thank everyone who responded for their
helpful comments. My HP7950 has two optical drives, as
many newer computers do. When I checked /etc/fstab, it
became evident that the DVD drive was linked to
/dev/cdrom, and the CD-RW did not appear at all. When
I placed a disk in the tray of the CD-RW, the computer
didn't find anything there because it was looking in
the other tray.

It is possible to use the CD-RW for conventional
reads, although it is unnecessary to do so, by
referencing it by its real name:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom

assuming, of course, that the DVD drive is not mounted
there already!

The construction of the fstab file seems to be
somewhat capricious, varying from one distribution to
the next. It is a good idea to examine it carefully. 

=====
Robert "Tim" Kopp
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