KCD was working fine(cd writer drive). Then I added a second player(cd 24x). KCD worked for a while then went dead("no disc"). I tried switching from cable select switches to master slave, no effect. I switched back to cable select. I tried reinstalling the OS, no effect. Windows has no problem reading either cd player. SUSE LINUX/KDE reads data cd's in both drives. I checked the all the cables. The sound cable goes from the sound card to the 24x drive. Tried switching to the cd writer, no effect(back on 24x).

HP 8200 CD writer plus
24x cd

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The first thing to do is to start KCD and check the configuration: something like Tools -> Configure KCD. You may have accidentaly changed a setting relative to the device that KCD will try to use.

Second, from a console, ls -l /dev/cdr*, to see what cdrom devices are in /dev, and what device they link to. You should see something like:
/dev/cdrom1 -> hdc
/dev/cdrom2 -> hdd
/dev/cdrecorder -> hdc

Third, cat /etc/fstab to see which of the devices are named (and which not named) in fstab. Edit to correct or make new entries as needed.

I have two drives: 1) dvd-rw and 2) cd-rw/dvd-r. My fstab looks like this:
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,rw,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,rw,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Thanks for the assist.

I checked both of those commands. It appears that both devices are installed normally. I checked kcd configure. CDrom device was set to desktop?? I never changed that setting. Once I set it set to cdrom, music played after months of silence.

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