[Solved] How to get CD/DVD drive working?

soupcan · 2009-01-17 02:48:01

I've been trying to get it to work since Day 1, just a few weeks ago. The default settings didn't work, no matter what I tried. I removed all mentions of optical drives from fstab and installed hal, to no avail. I've tried stealing other people's settings, copying my old ones from Ubuntu; pretty much everything I could think of. I've read the "How To fstab" on the Ubuntu forums, and searched Google many times. In the hopes of finally having a functional optical drive, I ask you:
What do I need to do?

Last edited by soupcan (2009-01-19 05:11:55)

R00KIE · 2009-01-17 15:07:01

Does it work when you login as root? If it does, have you added your user account to the optical group?

soupcan · 2009-01-17 15:21:18

R00KIE wrote:

Does it work when you login as root? If it does, have you added your user account to the optical group?

I haven't tried logging in as root, but my account is in the Optical Group.

Ranguvar · 2009-01-17 19:52:00

You never said specifically what the problem was?

soupcan · 2009-01-17 20:28:28

Ranguvar wrote:

You never said specifically what the problem was?

I don't know what the problem is; it just doesn't do anything. I'd like to know what I have to do to get it working.

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Shaika-Dzari · 2009-01-17 23:59:47

ok, try this as root:

if /media/dvd does not exist:

mkdir /media/dvd

Put a Data dvd (not a movie or an .iso) and try to mount it with:

mount -t auto /dev/dvd /media/dvd

Tell us if it works.

kludge · 2009-01-18 01:11:43

what shows up in your logs when you try to use your optical drive?

soupcan · 2009-01-18 02:31:50

Shaika-Dzari wrote:

ok, try this as root:
if /media/dvd does not exist:
mkdir /media/dvd
Put a Data dvd (not a movie or an .iso) and try to mount it with:
mount -t auto /dev/dvd /media/dvd
Tell us if it works.

I don't currently have a DVD (I'm not at home right now), but I'll try it. That's what I originally tried to do, but maybe something has changed now.

kludge wrote:

what shows up in your logs when you try to use your optical drive?

I haven't the slightest idea. Where are they?

Shaika-Dzari · 2009-01-18 03:22:25

soupcan wrote:

I haven't the slightest idea. Where are they?

/var/log/messages.log

soupcan · 2009-01-18 03:35:24

Shaika-Dzari wrote:

soupcan wrote:
I haven't the slightest idea. Where are they?
/var/log/messages.log

Thanks. I'll start looking.

kludge · 2009-01-18 05:23:25

soupcan wrote:

Shaika-Dzari wrote:
soupcan wrote:
I haven't the slightest idea. Where are they?
/var/log/messages.log
Thanks. I'll start looking.

there are other logs to look at as well. it's worth your time in the long run to spend some time exploring /var/log.

sica07 · 2009-01-18 09:14:51

Hello everybody! I, too have a problem with my cdrom drive. When I'm trying to mount it I get the error:"special device /dev/cdrom does not exist". I know that usually /dev/cdrom it's a link to a real device, but there is no device in /dev (beside my 2 HDDs). fdisk -l shows me only the HDD partitions. I didn't found any errors in my log files. Actually, Arch it's not seeing my CDROM drive.
Here is my fstab file:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
UUID=427c31e7-0626-4085-a368-68fa0071fe4f swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=f6e71d3d-5c4a-40ff-b773-6b68d16ec63d / jfs defaults 0 1
LABEL=HOME /home auto defaults 0 0
LABEL=MUNCA /media/Munca auto defaults 0 0
LABEL=VYDEO /media/Vydeo vfat defaults 0 0
LABEL=MUZICAFILME /media/MuzicaFilme vfat defaults 0 0
LABEL=SICA /media/Sica vfat defaults 0 0

Here is an excerpt from my mkinitcpio.conf:

HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usbinput keymap filesystems"

And here is fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2e832e82
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1094 8787523+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1095 2188 8787555 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2189 2796 4883760 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 2797 3738 7566615 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2797 3647 6835626 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 3648 3738 730926 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5072879e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 992 9729 70187985 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 * 1 991 7960176 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb5 992 5738 38130246 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb6 5739 9601 31029516 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb7 9602 9729 1028128+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order

Thank you.

ugaciaka · 2009-01-18 10:19:33

delete any /dev/cd o /media/dvd in fstab.
Hal work perfectly, hal make directory in /media automatically...

sica07 · 2009-01-18 10:41:53

I did that, and still no cdrom

Berseker · 2009-01-18 10:47:56

add your user to optical, storage, dbus and hal groups, then reboot. remember that the placing of icons on the desktop, depends from the DE's options you are using.

soupcan · 2009-01-18 14:38:18

Hal will automount DVDs, but not CDs. DVD mounts appear in messages.log, but CDs don't seem to be mentioned at all.

sica07 · 2009-01-18 15:13:30

Still no CD. I don't get it... I never had such a problem. Why is not seeing it?

Shaika-Dzari · 2009-01-18 23:31:43

Guy, why did you wait for hal?
Mount your drive in a shell. It's easy and it works

soupcan · 2009-01-19 02:49:01

Shaika-Dzari wrote:

Guy, why did you wait for hal?
Mount your drive in a shell. It's easy and it works

Well, hal works for DVDs, but I don't really care as much about DVDs as I do CDs. Nothing suggested in this tread works for music or blank CDs. If I type sudo mount -t auto /dev/cd /media/cd, it says, "you must specify the filesystem type". I don't know which filesystem type to use.

kludge · 2009-01-19 02:58:51

soupcan wrote:

Nothing suggested in this tread works for music or blank CDs. If I type sudo mount -t auto /dev/cd /media/cd, it says, "you must specify the filesystem type". I don't know which filesystem type to use.

and there's the problem!

a blank cd--by definition--does not have a filesystem on it yet. that's what makes it blank.

and an audio cd doesn't have a filesystem either... it has audio.

but generally speaking the filesystem for a cd is iso9660.

soupcan · 2009-01-19 03:20:52

kludge wrote:

soupcan wrote:
Nothing suggested in this tread works for music or blank CDs. If I type sudo mount -t auto /dev/cd /media/cd, it says, "you must specify the filesystem type". I don't know which filesystem type to use.
and there's the problem!
a blank cd--by definition--does not have a filesystem on it yet. that's what makes it blank.
and an audio cd doesn't have a filesystem either... it has audio.
but generally speaking the filesystem for a cd is iso9660.

I only just tried that at Shaika-Dzari's suggestion. I was hoping it would miraculously work.
But how would I mount a blank CD? My system doesn't even recognize that they're there.

But most of all, I really want to be able to mount Audio CDs. I haven't ripped most of my collection, and ripping is much faster than transferring files over a USB drive. Will iso9660 work for audio, or do I have to do something special?

kludge · 2009-01-19 03:31:49

soupcan wrote:

kludge wrote:
soupcan wrote:
Nothing suggested in this tread works for music or blank CDs. If I type sudo mount -t auto /dev/cd /media/cd, it says, "you must specify the filesystem type". I don't know which filesystem type to use.
and there's the problem!
a blank cd--by definition--does not have a filesystem on it yet. that's what makes it blank.
and an audio cd doesn't have a filesystem either... it has audio.
but generally speaking the filesystem for a cd is iso9660.
I only just tried that at Shaika-Dzari's suggestion. I was hoping it would miraculously work.
But how would I mount a blank CD? My system doesn't even recognize that they're there.
But most of all, I really want to be able to mount Audio CDs. I haven't ripped most of my collection, and ripping is much faster than transferring files over a USB drive. Will iso9660 work for audio, or do I have to do something special?

you *can't* mount an audio cd. they don't have a filesystem. period.

want you want is to install a ripper app. cdparanoia is common. i favor abcde. if that won't do the trick, perhaps it will at least give you more output about the problem. have you tried playing an audio cd with, e.g., audacious?

kludge · 2009-01-19 03:37:14

sica07 wrote:

Hello everybody! I, too have a problem with my cdrom drive. When I'm trying to mount it I get the error:"special device /dev/cdrom does not exist". I know that usually /dev/cdrom it's a link to a real device, but there is no device in /dev (beside my 2 HDDs). fdisk -l shows me only the HDD partitions. I didn't found any errors in my log files. Actually, Arch it's not seeing my CDROM drive.

i can only imagine that the module hasn't been loaded. otherwise, you'd have the device.

don't know your set-up, but here it's simply cdrom, which depends on sr_mod.

soupcan · 2009-01-19 03:39:47

kludge wrote:

you *can't* mount an audio cd. they don't have a filesystem. period.
want you want is to install a ripper app. cdparanoia is common. i favor abcde. if that won't do the trick, perhaps it will at least give you more output about the problem. have you tried playing an audio cd with, e.g., audacious?

I learned something new. : )
I have cdparanoia, but all I have for audio players are MPD and Sonata. Ummmm... would Asunder do?

kludge · 2009-01-19 04:01:51

soupcan wrote:

kludge wrote:
you *can't* mount an audio cd. they don't have a filesystem. period.
want you want is to install a ripper app. cdparanoia is common. i favor abcde. if that won't do the trick, perhaps it will at least give you more output about the problem. have you tried playing an audio cd with, e.g., audacious?
I learned something new. : )
I have cdparanoia, but all I have for audio players are MPD and Sonata. Ummmm... would Asunder do?

whatever. as long as it thinks it knows how to play an audio cd, it should complain if it can't.

you could also just try cdplay from the cdtools package.

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