IO error with CD Rom fstab file needs adjusting
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 18:19:38 +0400 (MET DST), Edward S. Baiz Jr. staggered into the Black Sun and said:
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Practically any distro should support all of those apps. Find one you like. Personally, I'd recommend Debian, but that's just because I like it's package management tools. What sort of MIDI support...
When this happens, the first thing to do is use dmesg and see what it says wrt the CD-ROM. I-O errors often indicate hardware problems.
What? Don't paraphrase error messages; post them exactly.
staggered into the Black Sun and said: Latency or bandwidth? Or do you know? If it takes many milliseconds for a packet to get from machine A to machine B...
? ed is for masochists or for the 5 or 6 people in the world who still have working glbutt ttys. Use whichever text editor you prefer. Newbies should use pico or nano, experienced people will probably prefer emacs or vim.
krazykatt Unlike Redhat, the Slackware installer can not use ISO images that it finds at the NFS mount. You will have to unpack the CD1 and CD2 because these contain...
No. Removable media devices like CD-R* drives should never have the auto option set. Otherwise, booting will be delayed when there's no medium (or an unmountable medium, like an audio CD) present in the drive at boot time.
Post the exact error messages you received from mount, along with the output of "dmesg tail" after you tried to access the CD-R*. Say which version of which distro you're using. If you're not running on an x86, mention which architecture you're running on. A typical fstab line for a CD-R* is like so:
dev-cdroms-cdrom0 mnt-cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0
...note the "noauto,ro,user" in the 4th column. That makes it so that the device is not mounted automatically at boot, any user can mount the device, and the device is always mounted read-only. The device name may be different if you're not using udev. Typically, automounters cause more problems than they solve, so if your distro has set one up, it may help to turn it off. HTH,
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