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Oh sorry! This appears to be in the wrong thread! =/
I forgot the additional information that Kdrake Management Centre (I run Mandrake 9.1) detects it fine, knows its make etc etc. It is a Toshiba DVD/CD-RW combo drive.
I also have no need of a floppy drive: The laptop didn't come with one. And I'm assuming a floppy is 'mounted' whatever that means. Does this cause any problems?
you probably don't have to mount it. Mandrake has this feature called supermount which, if it works, saves you the trouble of mounting and umounting CDs and floppies. Try changing into the directory /mnt/cdrom.
To be more precise: supermount does the mounting and umounting for you so when youstick in a Cd, it'll get mounted automatically.
Thanks for all the help so far. I have been at this since installing it at midday today. =/
After sorting out another problem with the Boot Manager, and trying the CD-ROM again, I found to my surprise I could access it! Even the /mnt/cdrom (which I assume is the same thing) worked!
As an aside, how can I access audio CDs then?! Even KsCD, the audio CD player can't play any audio CD!
Oh sorry. I meant I fiddled with the options under Mount Points using the Control Centre and checked user. supermount was already checked and obviously wasn't working. =/
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