why dvdrom isn't recognized?
 

I've installed Mandrake 10.1community. The machine is a Dell Optiplex GX260 with a Samsung CDRW/DVD combo. I have the mdl# at home not here at work. Anyway the cd side works ok...but the dvd isn't seen at all. That is no response atall when any kind of dvd media is in the drive. In the /mnt dir there's /mnt/CDROM. In the /fstab there's a string with /mnt/cdrom but no mention of dvd or scsi (there again I'm at work and don't remember syntax).
I've read where DVDrom drives needs to be disguised as a SCSI drive. But I havn't seen any thing pertaining to the combo drives as to syntax. I don't want to just guess what to do.
The exact syntax would be very helpful.
Thanx in advance

try mounting as root the device with

mount /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom 'or you can create another dir named /mnt/dvd

if this works and you can read the dvd then change it accordingly in /etc/fstab

My CDRW/DVDRW comes up as CD-ROM or /dev/hdc mounted as /mnt/cdrom

It reads and writes both CD's and DVD's so use the program K3B to set the permissions and try reading and writing both before you change anything

vangelis


"mount /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom" worked and mounted the dvd.

Now howto change it in /etc/fstab ?

Thank you very much.

sandb

if that worked on cd's also then edit the file
/etc/fstab with your favourite editor (mine is vi) as root
and find the line that refers to

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom "/dev/hdc might be different for you

and change it from '/dev/hdc' to '/dev/dvd'

Thanx vangelis
I'll give it a try when I get home in a few hrs .