[wellylug] CD-ROM mounting problem

[David Murray]

On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Adam Bogacki wrote:


> 	Applications such as xcdroast and cdplayer have no trouble
> accessing audio CD's in my DVD drive but other programs give me error
> messages such as cowbell's
>
>> Could not mount CD-ROM/DVD-ROM Drive
>>
>> Unable to mount the selected volume. The volume is probably in a format
>> that cannot be mounted.:
>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
>> missing codepage or other error
>> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>     dmesg | tail  or so
>
> .. which gives me
>
> adam at Tux:~03:29:48$ dmesg | tail
> hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: command error: error=0x50
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 0
> FAT: unable to read boot sector
> hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> hdc: command error: error=0x50
> end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64
> isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16
> adam at Tux:~03:29:5

Have you tried swapping in a different CD-ROM drive in that computer?

It *may be* that this CD-ROM drive is in the process of failing.



Regards,

David Murray