Accessing my CD-Drive

[Steve Holmes]

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That's because that was an audio CD.  You never need to mount audio
CD's.  But Data CD's have to be mounted as described in previous messages.

On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:40:48PM -0700, Sean McMahon wrote:
> Wait a second, I need some clarification, whenever I play a cd I just stick it
> in then take it out when I'm done.  I do no mount or umount.  Why isit I don't
> do any of this and when is this necessary.  In my case, I can only read not
> write to cdes.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 4:09 PM
> Subject: Re: Accessing my CD-Drive
> 
> 
> > Also, usually your distro makes a mount point for you to make things
> > easier.  Something like: /mnt/cdrom or /media/cdrom.  So, you can type:
> >
> > mount /mnt/cdrom
> > or:
> > mount /media/cdrom
> >
> > Don't forget to unmount the CD before you take it out!  Use the umount
> > command to do this.
> >
> > You can also do:
> >
> > mount /dev/xxx /blah/blah
> >
> > Where /dev/xxx is your actual device and /blah/blah is the place where
> > you want to mount it.
> >
> > Hope this helps!
> >
> > David Bruzos
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:43:07PM -0500, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
> > > Hi Nick,
> > >
> > > Yes, you must "mount" the cd before you can access it..... somehting lie:
> > >
> > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdX /mountpoint
> > >
> > > where:
> > > hdX is the device where your CDROM is physically connected, and
> > > /mountpoint is a directory in your filesystem to mount the  CDROM device
> on...
> > >
> > > see 'man mount' for details.
> > >
> > > --hth
> > >
> > > --terry
> > >
> > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:36:59PM -0600, W. Nick Dotson wrote:
> > > > I've brailled and read Janina's advice to me about how to copy my "tar"
> and "gz" html document files.  However, I'm still missing something with respect
> to
> > > > accessing my cd-rom drive.  I've tried such things as:
> > > > "/dev/fdc"
> > > > and
> > > > "cd /dev/fdc"
> > > > to no avail.  Do I have to "mount" the drive first, to be able to access
> it, and see thefile names?  Maybe,
> > > > "mount /dev/fdc"?
> > > >
> > > > Nick
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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