Re: Mounting CDs

On Sun, 2011-11-20 at 00:24 -0500, Jonathan Remener wrote:
> I would try them on a different device to see if they still work.  The=20
> coatings in some discs wear down over time, sometimes just after a few=20
> years.  It could also be that your drive is bad or dirty.  You could tr=
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> cleaning it, usually just touching the lens with a q-tip(don't rub it o=
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> anything) will do the trick.  I should also mention that from what I=20
> understand, LG drives are some of the worst.  Mine will burn discs just=
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> fine, but is starting to have issues reading DVD's.  Its actually=20
> managed to lock up my whole system trying to play a DVD.  It may simply=
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> be time to upgrade.
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> On 11/19/2011 10:25 AM, Chris wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 15:17 +0000, bascule wrote:
> >> On Saturday 19 November 2011 03:31:45 Chris wrote:
> >>> What I should have said is that these are music cds that are in mp3
> >>> format that I downloaded. Some will mount, some won't. Using the co=
mmand
> >>> line
> >>>
> >>> [root@localhost ~]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /home/chris/cd
> >>> mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> >>>
> >>> Some will mount just fine, however others show:
> >>>
> >>> [root@localhost ~]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /home/chris/cd
> >>> mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> >>> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sr0,
> >>>         missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> >>>         In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> >>>         dmesg | tail  or so
> >> did you download them as cd image files and burn to disk? if so mayb=
e some of
> >> them are in non iso9660 format, mauybe udf or something?
> >>
> >> bascule
> > No, they were all downloaded as mp3s. They used to work fine and some
> > still do. I can play them with no problems on my LG DVD player. I've
> > reseated the connections on the cd player in the computer to see if t=
hat
> > would help, which it didn't.
> >
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The LG drive is the one connected to my TV. However, all is well now as
I've been able to rip the tracks to the hard drive using cdparanoia.

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Chris
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