Under yast> Hardware> CD-ROM Drive, my cd and dvd drives are listed twice.
I cant mount although fstab looks fine, but as soon as I go to yast> Hardware> CD-ROM Drive, without making any changes, the problem is fixed until I reboot.

FSTAB:

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hde1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdf1 /windows/G ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdf2 /windows/O vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
none /subdomain subdomainfs noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /Linux/L unknown noauto 0 0

Ne suggestions, ne1?

I cant even mount cd/dvd as root unless i open up yast.

very weird!

change few things, but didnt help, so i concluded the problem is not with the fstab, but the way the hardware is pulled... help me

/dev/hda2 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hde1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdf1 /windows/G ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdf2 /windows/O vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/hdh /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdg /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs noauto,fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /Linux/L unknown user,noauto 0 0

Problem in my startup log:
/dev/hdg: No such file or directory
/dev/hdh: No such file or directory
failed

Well....?

Have same problem. Haven't found solution yet.
Tried this from http://www.novell.com/linux/download...100_i386.html:
24 Nov 2005 hal: Daemon for Collecting Hardware Information
RPM hal 0.5.4-6.4 (i586) 777 kB
Patch-RPM hal 0.5.4-6.4-patch (i586) 143 kB
Source-RPM hal-0.5.4-6.4.src.rpm

This update fixes problems with detecting filesystem and mounting of CD/DVD
volumes (bugs #130210, #130993, #104355 and #105956).
In some cases the serial of a storage device contains waste and non UTF8
valid characters. In this case adding the device to HAL device store fail.
Fixed this bug (#133664) with this package.
This new package also enable the localisation for the ha-device-manager.

Didn't help.

I'll let you know if I'll find something usefull.

Rergards,
Matej

I forgot one thing:
I installed vmware 4.5.2 on suse 10.0 with win2000 guest and win2000 recognized CD drive. Seemed strange for me.

And I've just installed suse 9.3 over 10.0 and everything works fine - recognizes CD drive. So, I'll stick with 9.3 for now.

Try erasing the noauto option of the two devices from your fstab. Like this:

-----------------------Now---------------------
/dev/hdg /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

-----------------------After-----------------------
/dev/hdg /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

And then you'll need to restart your computer.

Let me know if it works.

Good luck-

I did what you suggested and nothing changed.

I also have both drives listed in yast/hardware/cdrom drives so I would have to say that is normal. And your fstab looks fine the way you have it above. You shouldn't have to mount either drive when suse starts it will auto mount both for you. If you are talking about those icons on your desktop not showing up you have to configure them to show up (Configure Desktop/Behavior/Device icons tab)

This part you added to your new fstab right try using your original fstab

The problem is not that both drives are listed. They are both listed twice as I understood. At least in my case - I have only one drive and it's listed twice.

That is normal my drives are both listed twice and I have know problems mounting either one. When you insert a dvd/cd it will auto mount all you have to do is go to media folder and dvdrecorder or cdrecorder.

qoute:
"Under yast> Hardware> CD-ROM Drive, my cd and dvd drives are listed twice.
I cant mount although fstab looks fine, but as soon as I go to yast> Hardware> CD-ROM Drive, without making any changes, the problem is fixed until I reboot."

That explains the problem. Auto mount just doesn't happen. So once again: going to yast enable auto mount for that session, but after reboot I can't see anything in my cd drive without going to yast.
On my other computer everything works fine in suse 10.0 without any difference in setup or fstab.
And on the computer with the problem, suse 9.3 doesn't have any problem with auto mount or recognizing drives - and they are listed once, not twice.

Camus,
First, post your fstab if it is the same as the one above then that is your problem.Second, next time you reboot before you do anything try "dmesg" as normal user in console and post the results.

Sorry you didn't post your fstab? oops