DVD not recognized after install.

I installed Fedora Core 6 recently on my new Intel 965 board with Duo Core. I have two hard drives set up in mirror on SATA and a Sony DVD-RW drive connected on the IDE port.

In order to get the installation to recognize the DVD drive during install I had to pass the command "all-generic-ide". The install went fine, but now I cannot find the DVD drive in order to mount it. All I can mount is the floppy, but I need the DVD drive, too.

My kernel is 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.

Any ideas? Has anybody figured this out?

Do you have an entry in /etc/fstab for your DVD.
Look there first.

No, there is no entry for my DVD in /etc/fstab.

What next?

In that case is there an entry for /dev/cdrom. If so try mounting that;

#mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

or wherever you want to mount it.
If that is not working you can also try the following and see what the output is.

#ls -l /dev/cdrom #ls -l /dev/dvd #ls -l /dev/hdc

Post the output here.
This will give you some clues as to the devices present on your system and if they are linked to other devices.
Have a look in /lib/udev/devices and see if your dvd is listed there.
This maybe as simple as linking eg /dev/cdrom > /dev/hdc or something similar. But first have a look at your system and see what is present.
Which desktop are you using.

Thanks for you help so far. I am using text mode only.

There is no entry for /dev/cdrom.

None of the following commands turn out anything:

#ls -l /dev/cdrom #ls -l /dev/dvd #ls -l /dev/hdc

These are all the items in /dev/ :

adsp      fd0u1760    log      null      ram13    sda2        tty1   tty25  tty40  tty56    usbdev1.1_ep00  vcs3
agpgart   fd0u1840    loop0    nvram     ram14    sdb         tty10  tty26  tty41  tty57    usbdev1.1_ep81  vcs4
audio     fd0u1920    loop1    par0      ram15    sdb1        tty11  tty27  tty42  tty58    usbdev2.1_ep00  vcs5
bus       fd0u360     loop2    parport0  ram2     sdb2        tty12  tty28  tty43  tty59    usbdev2.1_ep81  vcs6
console   fd0u720     loop3    parport1  ram3     sequencer   tty13  tty29  tty44  tty6     usbdev3.1_ep00  vcsa
core      fd0u800     loop4    parport2  ram4     sequencer2  tty14  tty3   tty45  tty60    usbdev3.1_ep81  vcsa1
cpu       fd0u820     loop5    parport3  ram5     sg0         tty15  tty30  tty46  tty61    usbdev4.1_ep00  vcsa2
disk      fd0u830     loop6    port      ram6     sg1         tty16  tty31  tty47  tty62    usbdev4.1_ep81  vcsa3
dsp       floppy-fd0  loop7    ppp       ram7     shm         tty17  tty32  tty48  tty63    usbdev5.1_ep00  vcsa4
fd        full        lp0      ptmx      ram8     snapshot    tty18  tty33  tty49  tty7     usbdev5.1_ep81  vcsa5
fd0       gpmctl      MAKEDEV  pts       ram9     snd         tty19  tty34  tty5   tty8     usbdev6.1_ep00  vcsa6
fd0u1040  hpet        mapper   ram       ramdisk  stderr      tty2   tty35  tty50  tty9     usbdev6.1_ep81  VolGroup00
fd0u1120  hw_random   mcelog   ram0      random   stdin       tty20  tty36  tty51  ttyS0    usbdev7.1_ep00  X0R
fd0u1440  hwrng       md0      ram1      root     stdout      tty21  tty37  tty52  ttyS1    usbdev7.1_ep81  zero
fd0u1680  initctl     mem      ram10     rtc      systty      tty22  tty38  tty53  ttyS2    vcs
fd0u1722  input       mixer    ram11     sda      tty         tty23  tty39  tty54  ttyS3    vcs1
fd0u1743  kmsg        net      ram12     sda1     tty0        tty24  tty4   tty55  urandom  vcs2

The contents of /lib/udev/ are as follows:

ata_id            create_floppy_devices  load_floppy_module.sh  rename_device    udev_run_devd      vol_id
bluetooth_serial  devices                MAKEDEV.dev            scsi_id          udev_run_hotplugd
check-cdrom.sh    edd_id                 path_id                udevpermconv.sh  usb_id

What to do? If I'm not mistaken, this motherboard translates the IDE connection to SATA. Does that bring any solutions to mind?

Is the pin select on the dvd set to master/slave/cable select. It should be master if it is the 1ST IDE drive.

I would check this first and if the problem persists, check the output of dmesg, your device may show up there. If you use a graphical startup you could select F2 (usually) to see the output, this may provide clues as to what is going on.

As far as the motherboard is concerned I have no experience with the IDE - SATA set up you mentioned, although some PCI cards that I have seen come with SATA and ultra ATA. Is that what you are referring to. I do have SATA adapters fitted to my IDE harddrives.
I have also fitted a cdrom with an IDE - USB2 adapter and it shows up as /dev/sr0 - as an scsi device I guess. Look for an scsi device if you think your board supports such a thing.
If your DVD does not show up after the above - provide all the relevant info that you can and leave it to a more experienced member.
My experience level is just guessing at this stage.

Kudos to The_Outlander. As an additional plus...try the BIOS. Where the IDE Devices and SATA Devices are listed. Automatic hardware configuration sometimes leaves missing details or mis-identification of hardware devices. Also a cracked 4-layer motherboard will sometimes display inaccurate details as well. It is possible to manually identify the hardware devices and then reboot the system. The BIOS may need to be flashed, or replaced. That option is radical and requires serious observation and choice making.