KDE4, discs with same volume labels

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Hello all,

I’m curious if anyone else has run into this problem. My workstation has 2 optical disc drives. Today I placed a CD in each drive (virtually at the same time), but only one would appear.

I realized that both CD-R discs have the same volume label. It was appearing that KDE was only showing the first (first to be inserted) disc in the removable devices icon/plasmoid on the task bar.

I don’t know if this is a KDE4 thing, or a Linux thing. I don’t know much about the auto mounter, so maybe this is old news.

I’m running openSUSE 11.2 x86_64. Thoughts?

Thanks

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Did you try them one at a time?? ie let one mount before the next is inserted. I expect that having the same volume labels may be confusing things.

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I am interested in the output of

mount

at that moment in time.

When no label is available devices are mounted on a directory with the name of the class of device (in your case cd) and when more are there this will be cd, cd-1, etc.

But here we have labels. I always thought that in that case the same solution would be taken: label, label-1, etc.

What does *mount *say?

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Well, um…

It may appear that, coincidentally, this may just be hardware. The closer I look, the more I’m seeing that one of my optical disc drives is being a bit finicky.

dmesg shows IO errors on the first drive (SATA I) when I insert the CD-R discs, but the same discs read fine in the second drive (PATA). The first drive has been fine until now, so perhaps this is a manifestation of hardware failure.

I need to fiddle with it more to see what is going on, as there may be no reason to question auto mounter or KDE at all.

Will report more soon…

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So these two optical drives, I have… one is SATA and the other is PATA.

I put a CD-R in the drive, and I get this:


[57461.120225] sr 2:0:1:0: [sr1] Unhandled sense code
[57461.120242] sr 2:0:1:0: [sr1] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
[57461.120255] sr 2:0:1:0: [sr1] Sense Key : Medium Error [current]
[57461.120269] sr 2:0:1:0: [sr1] Add. Sense: L-EC uncorrectable error
[57461.120282] end_request: I/O error, dev sr1, sector 827520
[57461.120295] Buffer I/O error on device sr1, logical block 103440

The CD-R reads fine, without a hitch, in the PATA drive.

I dropped a DVD in the SATA drive, and it reads fine. I’ve tried other CD-R media… it seems to be hit and miss in terms of which work and which don’t. But they all, DVD… CD-R, whatever, work in the PATA drive.

So it seems we may just have a hardware problem. If I get more info on the actual mount issue, I’ll post here.