cant mount drive

Thornton thornton at cierragroup.com
Wed Oct 13 20:49:03 UTC 2004


> This is a problem I have often... "mount" 
> command doesn't list the drive as mounted, 
> umount won't unmount it saying it is not mounted,
> but mount won't mount it saying it is mounted.
> 
> not sure what it is due to - I think it is due 
> to the supermount automounter. If you find a 
> good solution, let me know. I guess you will 
> also found at this stage that the CD can't 
> be ejected by pressing the switch on the drive, 
> but giving the command eject /dev/cdrom will.
> Normally, reboot works for me - after
> reboot, when I put the disk in and wait for a few
> minutes, then the supermount mounts it. If it 
> doesn't, then giving mount command works.

It might be a slightly different problem as when I reboot it doesnt seem
to come back up.  I cant manually mount even then.

Seems there may be a couple different problems relating to the cd rom.  




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