Ive Installed acidrip in debian sarge stable, installed in /usr/local, the following has been done ln -sdev/cdrom1 /dev/dvd.....ln -s /dev/cdrom0 /dev/dvd.....my etc/fstab looks like this......# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /7.6gb ext3 defaults 0 0

but I still dont getit why acidrip not picking up the drive
any hlp would be appreciccated

Perhaps it is getting confused by both CD/DVD devices being linked to the /dev/dvd you should try a /dev/dvd1 for the second device. BTW try this line in your /etc/apt/sources.list you should be able to get acidrip from there.

got it to work by using /dev/cdrom in acidrip Video Source gonna try other thing afte r running a rip, all my codecs are not there yet but thats a diff story LOL
ths for the answer