Mount my dvd and Cd drives

desm · 2009-03-01 14:59:01

I have both cd and dvd burning drives, and ever since I first installed arch they've been innaccesable, and their contenst invisible.

Two cd drives (one too many) and a dvd drive are listed in /media, but I can't see any of their contents.
Something I used to be able to do using nautilus (I'm using whatever xfce4 comes with now) in ubuntu.

I've tried

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

But I get told to specify the filesystem type. Which I don't know, and probably varies accross different types of cdrom and dvdrom.

I'd like to be able to see, and use, both my cd and dvd drives for movies, music, and burning. And I'd like to be able to see their contents easily in the termnal or the file broswer.

Any help would be appreciated, I don't want to use Ubuntu

Shaika-Dzari · 2009-03-01 16:06:47

Hello!

This is the 2 line I have in my /etc/fstab:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

Your user must be in optical group:

gpasswd -a user_name optical

After that, you mount the drive with a simple:

mount /media/dvd

or cdrom...

@+

skottish · 2009-03-01 16:13:20

The most common problem when it comes to this subject is what Shaika-Dzari said: the user is not in the optical group. This is documented in both installation guides. If you're in the optical group, and you have hal running, you shouldn't need any entries for optical devices in /etc/fstab.

desm · 2009-03-01 16:17:27

Forgot to mention - I've been using root, which is in the optical group.

It didn't work, and just told me to specify the filesystem type again.

My fstab says:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

Again, one to many cdrom entries, but I don't know which one is correct.

hal is currently added to the deamons to run at startup.

Last edited by desm (2009-03-01 16:22:54)

Nezmer · 2009-03-01 22:02:49

It's not an audio CD , is It ?

desm · 2009-03-02 21:53:58

All kinda of cd and dvd. I'd like to be able to view them as I can in ubuntu.

Inxsible · 2009-03-02 21:56:18

desm wrote:

All kinda of cd and dvd. I'd like to be able to view them as I can in ubuntu.

are you using HAL or do you have input hotplugging disabled?

pointone · 2009-03-03 00:16:18

Try specifying filesystem types iso9660 for CDs or udf for DVDs--does this work correctly?

desm · 2009-03-04 19:36:26

It doesn't work no matter whether hotplugging is on or off. And I'm using hal.

When I specify file types, this happens:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist

I can't believe this problem hasn't happened to other people.

perbh · 2009-03-04 21:08:49

well - is it an audio cd?
In that case - there is no way you can 'mount' it ...
... but you can 'play' it and look at the content with something like 'totem' ...

desm · 2009-03-04 21:34:32

Then how does Ubuntu manage it ?
On ubuntu all I need to do is open up nautilus, navigate to the drive, and everything is their.

Last edited by desm (2009-03-04 21:34:48)

perbh · 2009-03-04 22:30:56

*sigh* probably because ubuntu launches an audio player with switches that just give the content without playing.
Let me repeat:
There is no way you can use the mount-command on an audio-cd.

My suggestion is that if this is of importance to you - you stay with ubuntu.

An alternative - you can do a 'man' command on any of the rippers that are out there - I'm sure that at least one of them will give you the content of an audio-cd.

Nezmer · 2009-03-05 00:33:06

perbh wrote:

Let me repeat:
There is no way you can use the mount-command on an audio-cd.

"Trying to mount audio CDs with the mount(8) command will result in an error, at least, and a kernel panic, at worst."
One of the funniest quotes from the FreeBSD handbook .

I guess desm is lucky running a Linux-based OS after all .

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Mount my dvd and Cd drives

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