What you are doing command-wise looks correct; could it be a hardware problem? Have you checked that the CD-ROM IDE cable is properly seated?
Can you do a `dd if=/dev/hdc of=hdc.iso` ?
Frankly, I use /mnt/cdrw for my rewritable and hard /dev links for cdrom and cdrw, so my fstab reads:
/dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,exec 0 0
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The entries in my fstab file look like this:
# for the CDROM
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
# for the CDRW
/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
there is no link between /cdrom and /mnt/cdrom ( I made them separate)
when I try to just do "mount /mnt/cdrom" it just hangs
and I don't even get a prompt back. Then the drive door becomes
unresponsive to the manual eject button. It's trying to mount I think
but it can't.
when I try to bypass /etc/fstab and do "mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom"
It gives back: "mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only".
And then it fires up (humming noise)
And then it still hangs as before.
I don't really care if I can mount the CDRW (/dev/scd0) so long as it
is working fine for writing CD's (it is) but I need to be able to mount
my main CD drive (CDROM - /dev/hdc) badly.
If I reboot (I can't kill the mount with "kill" - it seems thorougly
hung up and confused) then the system unmounts the cdrom and I hear it
hum down (but I was never able to access the contents - /mnt/cdrom
was always empty).
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