Red Hat Linux Issue

[blackpool9]

Also posted on the TechSupport board:

Anyone have any ideas on this? I'm trying to load tape backup client software on one of our Linux boxes. When I try to mount the CD drive in Red Hat Linux, I get the error:

"wrong fs type, bad option, or bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems"

I've only got 5 file systems mounted. The /etc/fstab file is set up correctly, with device /dev/cdrom mounting to /mnt/cdrom using file system iso9660. The installation disc came specifically labeled for Linux installation. I've run "dmesg" to get the hardware ID of the drive (hda) and tried "mount /dev/hda -t iso9660 -r /cdrom" and "mount /dev/hda -t iso9660 -r /mnt/cdrom" as well, and they didn't work. I've tried mounting a different disc that I know uses iso9660, and that won't mount.

At this point, I'm at a loss. Any ideas?

 

[Nothinman]

Run 'file -s /dev/hda' and see what it says.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Try a different cdrom drive?
Call Redhat support? 😛

Make sure the mountpoint exists, and is empty.
Try the simple command first: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrom
Build up from there to see if that helps...

 

[blackpool9]

Thanks for the responses. I actually stumbled upon the answer while working on another project this morning. The dmesg command is returning a hardware address of "hda" for the CD drive. But bringing up Hardware Manager in the GUI indicated that the CD drive was at "scd0". So I tried the command "mount /dev/scd0 -t iso9660 -r /mnt/cdrom", and it mounted just fine. I'm going to fix the /dev/cdrom pointer to point at /scd0, and the standard mount command should work after that.

 

[Nothinman]

I guess that's a pretty old version of RH? Because nothing should be using ide-scsi by default any more.