Can't mount dvd or cdrw drive
 

Hey, I can't find my dvd drive or cdrw drive.

From what I have read so far it should be dev/hdc or dev/hdd or something like that.


I got my cd rom to mount it was dev/cdrom.... and I changed its permission so all users can mount it and stuff, I wanted to watch a dvd but I can't get the drive to mount. I did install xine.

Any ideas?

How many hard drives do you have in your computer?

(The proper path would be /dev/hd<?>)

I have four... One CD drive, one cd writer, one dvd drive and one hdd.... the cd drive and hdd I found... I can't find the cd writer or dvd drive which are connected to the same ide spot

Have you tried /dev/hde or /dev/hdf?

as root I did this

bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hde
mount: can't find /dev/hde in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hdf
mount: can't find /dev/hdf in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hdc
mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: No medium found
bash-2.05b#

you need to specify a mount point.

mkdir /mnt/DVD
mkdir /mnt/CDRW
mount /dev/hde /mnt/DVD
mount /dev/hdf /mnt/CDRW

okay I did this as root

bash-2.05b# mkdir /mnt/dvd
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/dvd': File exists
bash-2.05b# mkdir /mnt/cdrw
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hde /mnt/dvd
mount: special device /dev/hde does not exist
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hdf /mnt/cdrw
mount: special device /dev/hdf does not exist
bash-2.05b#

try

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/DVD
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/CDRW

it says the mount point doesn't exist

bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/DVD
mount: mount point /mnt/DVD does not exist
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hdd /mnt/CDRW
mount: mount point /mnt/CDRW does not exis

/mnt/DVD isn't the same as /mnt/dvd.

;)

? I know cause linux is case sensitve, but when I made the directories I made them lower case. However, the dvd still doesn't mount....

By your earlier post you were attempting to mount as such:

bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/DVD
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hdd /mnt/CDRW

since you created the mount points lowercase, try:

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw

Okay I did this

bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd
mount: No medium found
bash-2.05b# mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw
mount: special device /dev/hdd does not exist

it said no medium found, but there was a dvd in there... however I put a cd into my plain cd drive and it found that, which I should have know cause my regular cd-drive works and that is /dev/hdc

it looks like your missing drive would be /dev/hdb

so by saying special device that means it found the device? cause I still can't see anything on the dvd or get it to play in xine