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AyanamiRei

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Registered: 2024-05-31

Posts: 2

Cannot mount Cd drive

Hello, I've been trying to get my laptop's CD drive working for a few days now, I've tried many different solutions, but none of them have helped.
My CD drive does work as it shows up in lsblk and it even let's me rip disks in ripperX and those places are the only places that it shows u, I can't do anything else without mounting it.
when I run "sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom" it spits out "mount: /mnt/cdrom: fsconfig system call failed: /dev/sr0: Can't open blockdev."
I've tried a few different fixes like mounting it while on a live usb and regenerating the fstab, but it spat out the exact same error
I'm getting fairly fed up with this and it's doing my head in and this is just a last ditch effort
I want to try putting it in the fstab but I cannot get the uuid because nothing recognizes it
Thanks

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,155

Re: Cannot mount Cd drive

You are trying to what? What kind of disk do you want to mount, how why and where? An audio cd disk contains audio cd tracks and not a mountable filesystem so that would not be any surprising. You can't "just add the disk drive to fstab", this depends on which kind of disk it is and what the data is.

There are various fuse drivers that give you the illusion that e.g. an audio cd is a mountable drive but that's not a filesystem in the common sense but an abstraction for reading audio tracks. You can't "mount the drive" if you don't know/have it's contents and an audio cd does not contain a filesystem. You can mount a data disk assuming it's a data disk with the ISO 9660 filesystem, but only in that case.

Last edited by V1del (2024-05-31 13:19:39)

AyanamiRei

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Registered: 2024-05-31

Posts: 2

Re: Cannot mount Cd drive

You are trying to what? What kind of disk do you want to mount, how why and where? An audio cd disk contains audio cd tracks and not a mountable filesystem so that would not be any surprising. You can't "just add the disk drive to fstab", this depends on which kind of disk it is and what the data is.

There are various fuse drivers that give you the illusion that e.g. an audio cd is a mountable drive but that's not a filesystem in the common sense but an abstraction for reading audio tracks. You can't "mount the drive" if you don't know/have it's contents and an audio cd does not contain a filesystem. You can mount a data disk assuming it's a data disk with the ISO 9660 filesystem, but only in that case.

I'm trying to mount /dev/sr0, the cd drive in my computer, I thought it had something to do with fstab because I started messing around with this half asleep and I haven't really had to play with this kind of stuff because it just worked most of the time sorry!
But yeah I want to mount /dev/sr0 but it isn't letting me

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,155

Re: Cannot mount Cd drive

/dev/sr0 is the cd drive, without a cd in it there's nothing to mount, whether you can mount anything strongly depends on the kind of CD that's in the drive, what kind of CD is this? Again audio CDs do not contain a filesystem you can't mount them normally, unless you use e.g. gfvs audio and use the corresponding gfvs command to "mount" it. Or you rip it with a designated ripper which apparently works fine, which is their point and purpose.