My CDROM drive died, so I just took it out and moved my ATAPI CD-RW into its place. Now Mandrake 7.2 will not allow access for any use, even though permissions are set correctly from root, etc. How do I configure the CD-RW so I can use it as an all purpose CDROM and a CD burner?

Thanks,
Tina Gasperson

Whats the error message you get when trying to mount to it?

CD-RW inaccessible
 

It says it is already mounted, but then when I try to cd into the directory, it says, input/output error.

What about your fstab file? Is it listed or not and if it is, what does it have listed for the entry?

Here are the contents of my fstab:


/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

tina...Mandrake 7.2 likes to treat all ide burners as scsi ones and if it is doing that to you then in your /dev directory you might have to change the link cdrom-->hdx to
cdrom--->scd0