I just recently installed SuSE 9.1 and have been having problems entering the cdrom and dvdrom drives. When I try to enter the cdrom or dvdrom drives it gives me the error message could not enter folder /media/cdrecorder. If someone could help me and tell me what I need to do I would appreciate it.

It seems the automount has some issues. People in this forum (including me) have repeatedly reported problems. What you can do is mount them manually:
as root, do:
mount /dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder # if your cdrecorder is the slave secondary.

Ok as root I went in and I right clicked on the cdrecorder in the media directory and opened a terminal window. I don't know if thats exactly how I was supposed to do it but I tried what you told me and that didn't work so I just typed mount and it came up with this information: /dev/hda2 on / type reiserfs (rw,acl,user_xattr)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620,gid=5)
/dev/hdc on /media/cdrecorder type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/hdd on /media/cdrecorder11 type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)
/dev/fd0 on /media/floppy type subfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,sync,fs=floppyfss,procuid)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /data1 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=jnassiri)

...so I then typed in one of those like for example /dev/hdd and it said permission denied (I tried it for others too). I don't know if I was even doing it right or not so if I didn't can you tell me step by step how to...i'm pretty new to linux...thanks! Oh yeah...in the media directory it contains cdrecorder, cdrecorder11 and floppy...I don't know if that makes a difference or not.

"Ok as root I went in and I right clicked on the cdrecorder in the media directory and opened a terminal window. I don't know if thats exactly how I was supposed to do it but I tried what you told me and that didn't work..."

What was the error message? Always post the errors, cause they often give some info on the problem.

How many cd-recorders do you have in this machine? If you have only one, this cdrecorder11 isn't supposed to be there. But we'll figure this out...

Please, post here the output of the command
cat /etc/fstab

So we can see how things are listed on your machine.

Here it is:
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder11 /media/cdrecorder11 subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0

Hopefully this will help and I also do have a dvdrom along with the cdrom.

Hey, can you burn cd's successfully, in this machine?

I'm having a hard time understanding why suse mounted two drives as cdrecorder (the other 11). One of them was to be the dvd.

Take a look at mine, for your reference:

/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=iso-8859-1 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=iso-8859-1 0 0

Do this: cd to the /dev dir and do a

ls -l | grep cdrecorder

This will let us see if these two (cdrecorder and cdrecorder11) are links or what.

Here's mine (the arrow means "link to hdd"):
bruno@frank:/dev> ls -l |grep cdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2004-05-19 19:21 cdrecorder -> hdd

If the cdrecorder11 is wrong, I guess we'll have to edit this line. But for now, let's try to make sure this is the problem, ok?

Ok I did that and here is what I got:

ls -l | grep cdrecorder jnassiri@linux:/dev> ls -l | grep cdrecorder
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2004-08-17 17:31 cdrecorder -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2004-08-17 17:31 cdrecorder11 -> hdd

I also forgot to add that I can play music cds with kscd. I haven't tried burning a cd yet though. So maybe this will help with things now...

You see, cdrecorder links to hdc and cdrecorder11 links to hdd. But one of them is not a cdrecorder, its a dvd, right?
Do you know which one (hdc or hdd) is the correct dvd?

Its possible that suse confused things because the cdrecorder would be hdc, and suse expected it to be hdd. (but this is a complete guess!)

- Do you have some kind of scsi emulation enabled? Take a look at the file /boot/grub/menu.lst and look for references to "scsi" on the suse sector.