i'm running redhat 9. neither acts as if it recognizes a cd in the the particular drives. both devices are set at "noauto" on mounting. if that is all i need to change i could use the help in how to, otherwise i think it's a driver issue with both.

also(maybe of not), the default gnome-cd player seg faults when launching the program.

thanks in advance for any suggestion/help, and if i need to include some more information will happily do!

what kind of CD are you using (audio or data)? have you tried another cd player?

have you tried mounting it - if its listed in fstab, you should be able to just type "mount" followed by the mount dir. you may need to be root, depending on which options are set.

check the mount man page ("man mount") for more details on mount options.

here is some boot information if that will help:
Linux version 2.4.20-31.9 (bhcompile@daffy.perf.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5)) #1 Tue Apr 13 18:04:23 EDT 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000027ff0000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 0000000027ff0000 - 0000000027ff3000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 0000000027ff3000 - 0000000028000000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 00000000ffff0000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
639MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 163824
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 159728 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2000.053 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 3984.58 BogoMIPS
Memory: 640604k/655296k available (1359k kernel code, 12128k reserved, 1004k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
thanks again for any and all help!