OK, I have very little hair left at this point.

I installed Kanotix 2005-01, which becomes Debian Sid upon installation. Using the 2.6.10 kernel. I have two cd drives:

/dev/hdc is my cdrw, seen in fstab as "cdrom".

/dev/hdd is my cdrom drive, seen in fstab as "cdrom1". I can't see data discs or play audio discs with cdrom1, even as root. It does eject, however. This is the drive that has the audio cable connected to the soundcard, and I want it to be the drive used by KSCD, XMMS, etc.

If I configure KSCD to use /dev/hdd or /dev/cdrom1, KSCD just shows the drive as "ejected."

Using "/cdaudio" in KSCD points to my cdrw in /dev/hdc, not /dev/hdd.

XMMS shows empty directories for /cdrom1.

Working with Kano in the Kanotix forum, he suggested I try changing to supermount. I followed the instructions and now have the lines below in fstab. It didn't help anything. Since changing to supermount, I lost "users" in fstab for /cdrom and /cdrom1. I have never seen an fstab that looks like this:

/cdrom /cdrom supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/cdrom1 /cdrom1 supermount fs=auto,dev=/dev/cdrom1 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0

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Output from cdrecord -scanbus:

# cdrecord -scanbus
cdrecord: Warning: Running on Linux-2.6.10-kanotix-8
cdrecord: There are unsettled issues with Linux-2.5 and newer.
cdrecord: If you have unexpected problems, please try Linux-2.4 or Solaris.
Linux sg driver version: 3.5.31
Using libscg version 'schily-0.8'.
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' 'P.04' Removable Disk
0,7,0 7) *
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Output from ls -l:

# ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 19 13:26 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

# ls -l /dev/cdrom1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 19 13:26 /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/hdd

# ls -l /dev/cdaudio
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Mar 19 13:26 /dev/cdaudio -> /dev/cdrom
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What do I have to do to make /cdrom1 on /hdd useable? And how do I change the lines in fstab to allow users again?

Thanks for any and all help.

Siri Amrit

have you just tried mounting it?
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom1" stick in a valid mount point instead of /mnt/cdrom1 or make a directory called /mnt/cdrom1

I tried both your ideas.

# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom1
mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom1 is a symbolic link to nowhere

I tried making a directory called cdrom1 under /mnt (as root) and couldn't do it. Says the file exists. What exists is a link called cdrom1 that links to nothing.

*Edit to above.

I deleted the cdrom1 link in /mnt and made a directory there for cdrom1 instead. didn't seem to make any difference.

What I don't understand is why this still has to be so hard! There must be more than a few of us with this kind of hardware configuration. You'd think Linux would have it nailed by now. I tried Mepis 2004.06 and it was no better in this regard. Something to do with the kernel? Or Debian? I never had this problem with Slackware.

Well I've got a cd-rw and a dvd player and it worked for that. What error did you get once you made the directory /mnt/cdrom1?

Wasńt /dev/cdrom etc dropped in kernel 2.6 and replaced with /media/cdrom and /media/cdwriter etc??

Certainly the case with Fedora Core 3

Hope this is of assistance

No that would just be a feature of the latest fedora. You can mount a device anywhere you like.

For anybody else with similar problems, it was a bad drive. Replaced it. It works now. Thanks.

Siri Amrit