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CDRom Drive Mounting Errors

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by featsfanbob

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I recently upgraded by Red Hat Linux
workstation from Red Hat 7.0 to Red Hat 7.1
and also upgraded Gnome to 1.4. Since that
time I can no longer mount my CDRom drive.
I keep getting the following error message:

"mount wrong fs type, badoption, bad
superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many
mounted file systems (could this be the IDE
device where you in fact use ide-scsi so
that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)"

I do not have any SCSI cables or drives on
my workstation. What should I do?

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by marshallkeithusa

My guess is that the cd is already mounted. Red Hat loads automount by default. Check /mnt/cdrom and I think you will see that it is already mounted.

by cybergod

If the CDROM is not already mounted then check the /etc/fstab for the correct name of the device, check and the type of the file system on the CD disk, if it contains DOS files or linux files, then use -t option.

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