I had an older IDE CD-ROM that was acting very flaky when mounting CD's.  I
would end up with read errors or nothing at all.  I found that in my BIOS
there
was a setting that had my CD-ROM drive as "High Performance".  I set it to
"Compatible" and it works just fine now.  Sound's like you have bigger
problems
though...

Mark Holbert

>From: Carl Parrish <carl@carlparrish.com>
>To: Phoenix Linux User Group <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
>Subject: Debian
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>telnet/ftp and send mail. But after a little more playing around I find
>that I can't mount my cd-rom. (mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/sonycd_31a /mount
>I think). run X (startX) or even run my man pages (man -duh!). Okay so I
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>Carl Parrish
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