I got a fresh install of Slack 10.2 on my computer but it does not seem to have detected my cd burner on the slave channel or my usb drive in KDE. I watched the scrolling text while it was booting and it did pick up the slave drive (master cdrom hda, slave cdrom hdb, and hard drive hdc). However, KDE does not seem to see it and there was nothing in the /etc/fstab file that said anything about a second cdrom drive.

Also, the USB drive did not seem to have been detected under KDE as well. Running the lsusb command revealed the following:
I also tried the mount usbfs command and it didn't work:
Any idea on how to fix this?

I guess this where my Slackware journey begins.

Slackware doesn't pick up my second cdrom either. You need to add an entry to fstab manually, and maybe make a new directory or two. Shilos guide at the top of this forum "This is how I do it all" might help.

Make sure you have usb modules loaded:
$ lsmod
ehci_hcd
usb_storage

Then try this:
dmesg|grep sd[a-z]

You should be able to locate your usb drive by the size.

Thats because usbfs is already mounted, probably you have it listed in /etc/fstab. Try lsusb to verify an you should see something like this:
$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0781:0621 SanDisk Corp. SDDR-86 Imagemate 6-in-1 Reader
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 05e3:0604 Genesys Logic, Inc.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:0870 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Express
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 04f1:0008 Victor Company of Japan, Ltd
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

so do edit the fstab, that is the solution here i wil show u how to edit it

first do a "dmesg |grep CD " or dmesg |more and scroll down and see what device is assigned. are u sure?? i dont think so!!! anyway scroll the dmesg out and find the devices

master cdrom is taken, so no problem

if u found that ur slave cdrom is "/dev/hdb" we wil edit the fstab like this
[CODE]/dev/hdb /mnt/cd-rw auto noauto,user,ro 0 0[\CODE]for this u must need a dir called "/mnt/cd-rw"

still some more issues may come according to wether u are using 2.4 or 2.6 kernel, regarding cd writting if u are using 2.4 please reply
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do a "dmesg |grep usb " or dmesg |more and scroll down and see what device is assigned.
if u dont have a scsi or sata disk most of the time the usb will be /dev/sda1, i hope ue usb will be vfat and u have a /mnt/usb dir. with all these im mind i will edit the fstab as
now plug the usb in and do a mount command (mount /mnt/usb)or click on the relevent icon in "mycomputer" in ur fav. KDE.
note: if /dev/sda1 is not the device then /dev/sda2 or /dev/sdb1 may be, then edit fstab like that

edit:before doing all this, see wether hotpugging is enabled! happy slacking

after thinking about it for a day (sry rkrishna i wish i had seen your post before i solved it) i added the following line to my fstab file and made a folder for mnt:
this got the slave drive running (when i built the computer i didn't realize that the hard drive cable was in the 2nd ide port instead of the first. That's why my slave drive is hdb.)

to get the usb drive running i ran the dmesg and searched through the miles of text until i saw Lexar Media, Inc. on sda1 . I created a folder lexar_media in mnt and added another line to fstab:
Boom! The lexar drive is now working (although it sees it as a hard drive instead of a memory stick but i don't care, as long as it works )

I couldn't believe how simple that was. I feel like hitting myself.

Thanks to everyone who responded! I felt a point get knocked off my newb rating (i'm a 99% newb instead of a 100% newb).

i hope u can change iso9660 --> auto hi
can u able to mount as $user, and write on it??

now onwards u can configure usb problems in any linux flavours like Ubuntu, Fedora,.... being a slacker seems to be nice

If you want to be able to mount as a normal user, add "users" (or "user") to the options list for the relevant line in fstab. As for writing to it as a regular user, I think you may need to use umask because FAT partitions don't use permissions. It may be "umask=000" that you need to add to the options list, but I'm not sure.