How To Mount a DVD Drive in Fedora

CaptainCarisma · 10-18-2006, 11:25 AM

I am very new to linux and need some help on how to mount my dvd rom.

i am using Fedora Core 5 and my dvd drive is an LG GSA-H10N.

Hopefully some can help or point me in the right direction. I've been searching around for the answer, but have yet to find anything helpful.

thanks in advance

sn68 · 10-18-2006, 11:30 AM

If you insert a DVD in your drive, does it not show up on desktop automatically?

CaptainCarisma · 10-18-2006, 11:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sn68

If you insert a DVD in your drive, does it not show up on desktop automatically?

Nope......

kinematic · 10-18-2006, 12:29 PM

are you a part of the cd-rom group?

CaptainCarisma · 10-18-2006, 12:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kinematic

are you a part of the cd-rom group?

Nope; Should i go there.....

I'm very new to linux and confused at this point on how to get my DVD rom working.

Any pointers or direction would be very much appreciated

CaptainCarisma · 10-18-2006, 01:59 PM

Anyone have any ideas????

I have checked my media file folder and it is empty....

sn68 · 10-18-2006, 02:21 PM

Try the following
Open terminal and type..
>dmesg | grep DVD
if you get output like

Quote:

hdc: GCR-8525B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: YAMAKAWADVR-Y08, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2000kB Cache, UDMA(33)

then you can mount your dvd by adding folowing line to your fstab
(before that su and mkdir /mnt/dvd)
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd iso9660 defaults,auto

save & quit the editor and from terminal
>mount -a
to mount

PS: In this case I have used hdd since my dvd drive is hdd,change according to msg you get

CaptainCarisma · 10-18-2006, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sn68

Try the following
Open terminal and type..
>dmesg | grep DVD
if you get output like

then you can mount your dvd by adding folowing line to your fstab
(before that su and mkdir /mnt/dvd)
/dev/hdd /mnt/dvd iso9660 defaults,auto

save & quit the editor and from terminal
>mount -a
to mount

PS: In this case I have used hdd since my dvd drive is hdd,change according to msg you get

It returns nothing???

sn68 · 10-18-2006, 03:02 PM

hopefully you didnt type following
>dmesg |grep dvd
output of above is nothing
type
>dmesg |grep DVD
and check

CaptainCarisma · 10-18-2006, 03:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sn68

hopefully you didnt type following
>dmesg |grep dvd
output of above is nothing
type
>dmesg |grep DVD
and check

No i entered dmesg | grep DVD the first time. I tried it again using capital DVD and i even tried lower case dvd and they both return the same results

CaptainCarisma · 10-18-2006, 03:11 PM

the results that both return are nothing

it just moves down to the next line

sn68 · 10-18-2006, 03:23 PM

i think it means that the hardware is not being detected,
Have no idea what do to next .. :0(

michaelk · 10-18-2006, 03:48 PM

Did you install the OS using this drive?
Verify the drive is enabled in the motherboard BIOS.

farslayer · 10-18-2006, 04:01 PM

That command isn't enough for me to obtain output either..

cat /var/log/dmesg | grep DVD however did return results, once I su to root..

Quote:

itg-debian:~# dmesg | grep DVD
itg-debian:~#
itg-debian:~# cat /var/log/dmesg | grep DVD
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive