/dev/hdc [SOLVED]

divadgnol67 · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 16 Location: PA

i want to be able to mount my dvd player so i can play cd's with audacious. i have my dvd player on /dev/hdc and i have /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd in my fstab. i created the dir /mnt/dvd and still am unable to mount /dev/hdc to this directory or ls the contents of the cd. ( even as root)

your help is greatly appreciated,

winlinosx
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schachti · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:16 pm Post subject:

Please give us the corresponding line from /etc/fstab and the error message you receive.
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coolsnowmen · Veteran Joined: 30 Jun 2004 Posts: 1479 Location: No.VA

ditto schachti

but while im here,

if you are an automounting person, you don't even need a line in /etc/fstab if udev/dbus/hald/-top-level-automounter- is set up correctly. (you also need to be in the plugdev group for most of these things including using pmount directly)

otherwise if you insist on using fstab, the things to check are
type is iso9660

the device is right, though if your system is setup correcly, /dev/dvd should point to it, ls -l should be enough to find it in the standard places

options should be user,noauto

truly though, if you work in a full featured desktop environment, automounting is the way to go for usbs/cdroms/dvds
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divadgnol67 · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 16 Location: PA

i had everything correct onmy end. it seams mv dvd player does not recognize cd's anymore. i have removable hard drives, so i removed replaced with xp and have the same problem. i also placed a dvd into the drive under linux and cd to /mnt/dvd and read contents of dirve with ls.

thanks anyway
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divadgnol67 · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 16 Location: PA

coolsnowmen,

i am a minimalis.... i run fluxbox with jpeg as my only USE flag, opera and audacious as my media player. simple but effective
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StarDragon · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2005 Posts: 390 Location: tEXas

divadgnol67,

You cannot mount a music CD, it does not have a filesystem.

Since you are a minimalist like me, I would just run mplayer cdda://

divadgnol67 · n00b Joined: 24 Dec 2007 Posts: 16 Location: PA

StarDragon,

your help would be greatly appreciated. i would like to use mplayer as well, and would like to do so from the command line. Will you be so kind as to tell me how to do this. mplayer is compiling right now.

Thanks,
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