I am running Red Hat Enterprise WS and also have a Samsung Model SM352 DVD/CD-RW drive on my system. It is recognized and mounted as /dev/cdrom1 since it is my 2nd drive. Any ideas on how I can get it mounted as a DVD/CD-RW drive? Just mounting it as a DVD drive would be fine.

Samsung doesn't have any Linux drivers, just Windows.

Thanks,

Norm

I'm not 100% positive, but I don't think you have to do anything special with the mounting to get DVD's to work on the device.
If you can put in a standard DVD, mount it, then cd /mnt/your_dvd_path/ and see the files that make up the DVD structure, then you're really close.

To get the dvd's to play, you have to install (and read up on) libdvdcss.

I would have posted the instructions that I made notes on when I got my Samsung SM-352BENB working on my Mandrake 9.2 install... but I seem to have inadvertently deleted those notes somewhere along the way.

From what I do remember of getting mine working, I think I had to make a symlink of the /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/cd over to /dev/dvd because my dvd playing app (xine) wanted to open dvd's from /dev/dvd by default.

I'm going to keep hunting for my notes because I'm about to re-install with Mandrake 10 but I'm pretty sure they're gone. If I happen to find them, I'll append to this thread.