Bruno Castro da Silva wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> A week ago I sent an email asking for help regarding mounting problems
> on KDE. Specifically, I have a CDRW/DVD-ROM drive and when I put a
> disk it fails with the following error:
>
> "Error while loading media:/hdd
>
> An error occurred while loading media:/hdd:
> The file or folder media:/hdd does not exist."
>
>
> I tried several configurations in /etc/fstab, including the
> suggestions James and Justin gave me. Since then I tried a lot of
> other possibilities and googled around, but found no answer. The
> strange part is that my CDRW/DVD-ROM drive can automount normal CD
> disks, but fails specifically when I insert a DVD a disk (both burned
> DVDs and movies, etc).
>
> I suspect that the problem might have something to do with the device
> /dev/hdd but I couldn't find anything on google.
>
>
> ps: my fstab is currently using the defaults which came with my
> Kubuntu distro:
> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> /dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
>
> /dev/hdc is my DVD-RW drive, which works fine. /dev/hdd is my
> CDRW/DVD-ROM drive which can only automount CD disks, but not DVD disks.
>
>
> Can someone please give me a hint or any suggestion on this problem?
> It's really annoying not being able to automount DVD disks! :-)
>
>
> Thanks in advance an thanks for the support so far!
>
>
> Bruno
>
>
>
>
> 2005/12/23, Bruno Castro da Silva <brunocs@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:brunocs@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>
> Thanks for the hints, James and Justin.
>
> I tried to update /etc/fstab with your suggestion:
>
>> dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 auto defaults,noauto,users,unhide
> 0 0
>
> but it didn't work. I also tried to use a line that I used in my
> old redhat system:
>
> /dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
>
> which didn't work either.
>
>> Some research indicates that UDF is another CD format so if your
> Kernel
>> has it and you need it you should probably add that as well.
>
> Thanks, but I tried with and without UDF and it that option didn't
> make any difference.
>
> Check to see if you are in the "cdrw" group. Please note, this
> may not be the actual group name. Just `grep yourname
> /etc/group*` and compare the results. Also see if the perms on
> /dev/hdc match those of /dev/hdd.
>
>
>
> I do belong to the 'cdrom' group. Permissions on /dev/hdc and
> /dev/hdd are exactly the same, and I just tried to give a+rwx to
> both but the same error still occurs when I insert the CDROM:
>
> "Error while loading media:/hdd
>
> An error occurred while loading media:/hdd:
> The file or folder media:/hdd does not exist."
>
>
>
> Any more ideas?
>
> Thanks for the support so far!
>
>
> Bruno
>
>
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Just a thought.
I once had probs with two cdrom/dvd units fitted and was able to fix it
with ensuring that one was indeed master and the other indeed slave. I
seem to remember that it involved bios settings rather than physical
jumpers but don't quote me on that.
Frank
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