I'm having a bit of a problem with Slackware 10. I'm a complete N00b to linux, so I apologise if this is a staggeringly obvious question.

I have a DVD drive and CDRW drive. Both are on the same IDE cable, CDRW is master, DVD is slave. Slackware is only seeing the CDRW. My FSTAB looks like this:

/dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda1 /
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
devpts /dev/pts
proc /proc


Now, if I unplug the CDRW and set the DVD to master, it gets detected and the FSTAB looks the same. I can also have the CDRW by itself, and FSTAB looks the same again. But will never detect both drives at once.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks

Make sure the motherboard BIOS is set for auto configuration on the slave for that IDE controller where the DVD drive is connected.

It is set to auto. Also, both drives worked fiine in Windows before I formatted the machine.

Linux will not automatically setup your drives. You have to do that yourself. Using /dev/cdrom is not very predictable, but using /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd is. Change your fstab from

dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda1 /
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
devpts /dev/pts
proc /proc

to

dev/hda2 swap
/dev/hda1 /
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
devpts /dev/pts
proc /proc

You have to make the directory /mnt/dvd yourself as su or root. You can then make symbolic links as /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd.

If your CD and DVD drives is not /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd, check dmesg.

Got it working now. Had my fingers crossed when I rebooted after I modified the FSTAB, but everything is present and correct now.

Thanks for all the help.