Re: CD-Changer

Roy P. Turner (ecstasy@dopamine.com)
Fri, 10 Jan 1997 07:37:54 -0600 (CST)


On Fri, 10 Jan 1997, Martin Bauer wrote:

> Hi *,
>
> I hope this isn't too off-topic.
>
> I got a PIONEER DRM-624X cd-changer with 6 cd-magazine. When I
> boot the machine the kernel reports every slot as a seperate
> cdrom-drive (/dev/scd0../dev/scd5), ok! But if I try to mount e.g. /dev/scd0, the
> changer loads the specified CD waits several seconds, unloads
> the CD and then tells me the following story:
>
> # mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
> or too many mounted file systems
>

I've had similar results with a cdrom changer. In my case, running
the same mount command again after the error got it to load.

mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom (gives an error)
Run the same command immediately and it mounts fine.

Roy

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