I recently installed Slackware 10.1 and I could configure the fstab, and add the mount point for the dvd writer, also couldn find the mount point for the cd-rom.
Heres my dmesg

root@Cauin:/home/alex# dmesg
Linux version 2.4.29 (root@midas) (gcc version 3.3.4) #6 Thu Jan 20 16:30:37 PST 2005
[1039/0645] at 00:00.0
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 7777K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SIS5513: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:02.5
SIS5513: chipset revision 208
SIS5513: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
SIS5513: SiS 961 MuTIOL IDE UDMA100 controller
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
HPT372: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0f.0
HPT372: chipset revision 5
HPT372: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
HPT37X: using 33MHz PCI clock
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xe800-0xe807, BIOS settings: hdeio, hdfio
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xe808-0xe80f, BIOS settings: hdgio, hdhio
hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c03ad460, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: SONY DVD RW DRU-510A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HL-DT-ST CD-ROM GCR-8520B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 58633344 sectors (30020 MB) w/1900KiB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63, UDMA(33)
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdd: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdd: ATAPI 52X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, DMA
mcd: initialisation failed - No mcd device at 0x300 irq 11
SJCD: Sanyo CDR-H94A cdrom driver version 1.7.
SJCD: Resetting: .......... reset failed, no drive found.
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000340-00000343>
cm206 cdrom driver $Revision: 1.5 $ can't find adapter!
Sony CDU-535: probing base address 340
Did not find a Sony CDU-535 drive
udf: registering filesystem

I cant find what to add to my fstab, also the dvd appears as a cdrom, i want to change its name also
heres my fstab

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

this is the dvd writer, and appears a a cdrom and i couldnt find the cdrom to make the mountin point, how do i modify the fstab and what do i have to do?
alex

/dev/cdrom is a symlink to hdc (your dvdrw drive). You can see this if you run an ls -l in /dev. Run these commands to symlink /dev/cdrom to your cd drive (hdd) and /dev/dvd to your dvd drive:

It's possible to just put /dev/hdc etc. in your fstab but it's not as clear, IMHO. Then you can add this to your fstab (keeping your previous entry):

You probably have to run these as root, and you might want to make the /mnt/dvd drive beforehand.