Hi , i have my cdrom mounted as Primary and my cdrw as Secondary. After I installed Slackware I could access only the primary device(the cdrom). I changed the /etc/fstab so I can access my cdrw:

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /fat-c vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro,unhide 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro,unhide 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

but it still doesn't work... (i'm sure that the cdrw is /dev/hdd)
thanks

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro,unhide 0 0

First of all check that the directory /mnt/cdrw exists
If not you will have to create this as root
$ su
********* ( password )
# md /mnt/cdrw
then insert a cd-rom of that you know that works (not scratched ,...)
then try to mount it as root(su)
# mount /mnt/cdrw

if that doesn't work check if the hardware is working.
Make sure that is the ide and prower cables are plugged in
(i once made the mistake of not plugging in the ide cable and it took me a long time to figure out what was wrong)
Check that you're cdrw is on slave and is connected to the middle connector of the ide cable.

Umm, just to clarify the terminology for you:

/dev/hdc is secondary master on the IDE-bus
/dev/hdd is secondary slave on the IDE-bus

"/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,ro,unhide 0 0" -> ro=read only should run
"/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,user,rw,unhide 0 0" rw=read-write else you can't write.

Was that your problem? Else make sure /mnt/cdrw really exists. As to
"i'm sure that the cdrw is /dev/hdd", what is the output of ?

i changed ro to rw.

root@chupacabra:~# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 2.00.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling
cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver.
cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are root.
cdrecord: For possible transport specifiers try 'cdrecord dev=help'.

and when i try with a cd, it spins it when i click on the cd-rw icon, but after it tries mounting the dev/hdd it shows me this:

Error-Kdesktop
Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: mount point /mnt/cdrw does not exist.

what should i do ?

oh, and:


root@chupacabra:~# md /mnt/cdrw
-bash: md: command not found

solved it, thanks for the help guyz!

Good for you. How?

Please help helping and detail your solutions in the thread you initiated.

just created a cdrw folder in the /mnt directory