Lost my cdrom/cdr

[Chris M. Rafael]

have you tried mounting it first?  Try doing a manual mount command first.

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom


Chris M. Rafael

I have a windows partition on my Linux box so I can
mount it like the bitch it is.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Julio Gutierrez [mailto:gutierrej001 at hawaii.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 8:03 PM
> To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> Subject: [luau] Lost my cdrom/cdr
>
>
> I was trying to install a couple of rpms from the mandrake cd and
> when I cd
> into /mnt/cdrom  it gave me an error saying
> bash: cd: /mnt/cdrom: Input/output error
> why is this?
> how did I lose it ?
> is there a way I can get it working again?
> can someone help?
> by the way is a matsushita cd-r cw-7582 and it was woking before and it's
> also detected by the OS
> TIA
> Julio
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