Subject: Re: FW: mount: Wrong medium type
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 13 2002 - 19:38:22 MST
Try this:
mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
By specifying the fs type and the rw capability, you've eliminated the
computers' guess work.
--- Sean
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, ravybuz wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am having the following problem on an iBook2, running kernel 2.4.10-12a on
> 2.1:
>
> >#mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
> >mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only
> >mount: Wrong medium type
>
> >and a get this message
>
> >kernel: cdrom: pid 679 must open 0_NONBLOCK!
> >kernel: cdrom:open failed.
>
> (error content ripped from previous poster-
> I have a duplicate problem, pls. forgive!)
>
> Thank you very much for your assistance!
> Regards,
> Eric
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