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Asked by Harry Chestnut

I am trying to copy a cd using Graveman. It tell me, procedure fail. I try to mount the cdroms in a terminal, and I get the following.

harry@BOBJOE:~$ mount /media/cdrom
mount: No medium found
harry@BOBJOE:~$ mount /media/cdromo
mount: can't find /media/cdromo in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
harry@BOBJOE:~$ mount /media/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so

harry@BOBJOE:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda1 /media/hda1 vfat defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
harry@BOBJOE:~$ dmesg | tail
[17186663.440000] ReiserFS: hdd: warning: sh-2021: reiserfs_fill_super: can not find reiserfs on hdd
[17186663.704000] XFS: bad magic number
[17186663.704000] XFS: SB validate failed
[17186663.796000] XFS: bad magic number
[17186663.796000] XFS: SB validate failed
[17187807.100000] cdrom: open failed.
[17187809.312000] cdrom: open failed.
[17187952.416000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[17187967.668000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[17188466.348000] Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
harry@BOBJOE:~$

Will some one please tell me what to do.
Thanks harry

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

Is the problem restricted to one CD or does it happen with many?
Is it a commercial music CD?
Some CDs are "copy protected" ( sometimes the label tells you this ). Often they will not have the genuine Compact Disc Digital Audio logo ( as seen at the top right of this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_(audio_CD_standard) ).

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Harry Chestnut (harrychestnut-hotmail) said : 		#2

it will not let me copy unprotectecd cd of any kind form one cd to an empty one.
          thanks harry

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#3

Stick a CD in the drive, does Ubuntu automount it? Do you get an icon on the desktop (and one under the "Places" menu) for the CD you inserted?

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Harry Chestnut (harrychestnut-hotmail) said : 		#4

Hi Allen

Today it is telling me it can't mount the cd because it is probably in an unrecognizable format.. Yesterday it was not doing that.
This is probaly because, some times when I boot, It tells me that the RWcd is incompatable... This morning it recognized and will mount. So my problem is probably in the Bios. This machine is pieced together. In a few days I start computer classes. One of them is Linux adminstration..I have been getting others to try Ubuntu. I think it is great.
The Ubuntu support team is very impressive. particularly in your quick response.. THANK YOU!!!!!!!! harry

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> Subject: [Support #2983]: Re: Trouble using cdroms
> Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 01:58:05 +0000
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> Status: Open => Needs information
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> Alan Pope requested for more information:
> Stick a CD in the drive, does Ubuntu automount it? Do you get an icon on
> the desktop (and one under the "Places" menu) for the CD you inserted?
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Best Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#5

Thanks for the kind comments, and good luck with the computer classes.

Sounds like the CDROM drive is broken :(

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Harry Chestnut (harrychestnut-hotmail) said : 		#6

Broken cdrom

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vivek (viveksri15) said : 		#7

try this:

Edit /etc/fstab and comment out the line:
/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0

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vivek (viveksri15) said : 		#8

it has helped me