Bug#101526: mount says no medium found in cd-rom

[Jeffry Smith <smith@mclinux.com>]

AJETTENGER@aol.com said:
>package: general
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>       When i try to mount my cd-rom i get an error:
>
>$ mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom
>mount: block device /dev/hda is write protected, mounting read only
>mount: No medium found
>
>       The computer recognizes my cd-rom drive by giving the following line 
>in startup:
>
>hdb: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5602B, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
>       I am running Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 , kernel 2.2.18pre21, libc6 2.1.3-13 
>and gcc version 2.7.2.3.  I have a serial modem, floppy drive, mouse, 
>keyboard and a monitor.

What model Toshiba?  I had a laptop that had that exact problem - turned 
out the CD-ROM was bad.   One way to check is to set the BIOS to boot off 
the CD-ROM first and put a bootable CD-ROM in.  If it fails to boot off 
the CD-ROM, then the HW is not reading the media.  Solution:  replace 
either the CD-ROM or the computer.

jeff
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