cd drive doesn't read

Technoghost · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

I am using a Ricoh MP7040A and it does not want to mount. When I try to mount it from Gnome, nothing happens with the exception of the access light on the Ricoh drive continually blinking. When I try it from a prompt it says there is no medium found and once again the access light continues to blink away. Any ideas on how to fix this would be greatly appreciated.

tobimat80 · Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2003 8:03 am Post subject:

How do you try to mount your drive?
Is ther any error message?
Are you trying to mount a audio-cd?

Regards,
tobi
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Technoghost · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

I am trying to mount data cd's. I have tried to mount it two ways. First by right clicking the desktop (using gnome) and going to "Disks" and selecting the disk. The second is by typing "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw". Just to clear this up ahead of time, the mount folder does exist and /dev/hdd is the correct drive. The message I get back is:

mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No medium found

This occurs with a disk in the drive. As I mentioned in either case the access light on the drive blinks continually. It only stops when I open and then close the drive again.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

tobimat80 · Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2003 8:26 am Post subject:

Hm, could you post
- ls -l /dev/hdd
- lsmod
- cat /proc/version?

:wink:

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Technoghost · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

ls -l /dev/hdd
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Nov 2 13:05 /dev/hdd -> ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd

lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
floppy 47036 0 (autoclean)
uhci 23216 0 (unused)
emu10k1 49512 1
ac97_codec 9800 0 [emu10k1]
soundcore 3364 4 [emu10k1]
tulip 39168 1
usbcore 55488 1 [uhci]

cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.4.20-gentoo-r6 (root@cdimage) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Gentoo Linux 1.4 3.2.3-r1, propolice)) #1 Wed Sep 10 19:45:25 CDT 2003

tobimat80 · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 9:30 am Post subject:

Have you tried scsi-emulation yet?

If not, take a look at the cd-rom howto.

:wink:

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fleed · l33t Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 756 Location: London

I have the same model and use it with Gentoo fine. The only problem I have is when ripping audio CDs but that's to do with my motherboard rather than the CD drive. I've also upgraded mine to an MP7060A through a firmware update but I think other than the higher writting speed most other things should remain equal.

I don't use scsi emulation at all, even for writting, and never had this problem. Could it be something with your motherboard maybe? Is dma enabled for the CDRW? If so try disabling it.

Barkotron · Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2003 12:21 pm Post subject:

Technoghost · n00b Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

I tried disabling dma, which unfortunately did not work. I was considering scsi-emulation but was hoping there was a way to get it working as an ide device. Thanks for all the help.