I have a very big problem:
I have two DVD drives, a DVD-ROM and a DVD-RW, but none of them works under slack

root@darkstar:~# dmesg | grep -i cd
hdb: ASUS DVD-ROM DVD-E616P 0104, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4163B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver.
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
hdc: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: irq 10, pci mem e0cc4000
ehci_hcd 00:10.3: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2003-Dec-29/2.4

As it can be seen here, they look to be fine...
Under windows they work fine. So it is not a hardware problem.
mount doesn't do anything with them

This is my fstab file:
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /windows ntfs ro 1 0
/dev/hda5 /minden vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hdd1 /rekk vfat defaults 1 0
/dev/hdb /dvdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc /dvdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
Can anybody help me?

.edi

They seem to be recognized.. your problem is that you cannot read/burn dvd? can you play/burn cds?
A.

your burner is set to ro (read only), you can safely remove that. Try also taking out owner, it is an unnecessary restriction in most cases. also you could try auto instead of iso9660, mount is smart enough to recognise the filesystem type.

have you got /dvdrom and /dvdrw mount points in your root directory? many put these as subdirs of /mnt, but so long as fstab points to the right place....

what error do you get with the mount command?

edit: actually, replace 'owner with 'user' or 'users'.


user Allow an ordinary user to mount the file system. The name of the
mounting user is written to mtab so that he can unmount the file sys-
tem again. This option implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev
(unless overridden by subsequent options, as in the option line
user,exec,dev,suid).

users Allow every user to mount and unmount the file system. This option
implies the options noexec, nosuid, and nodev (unless overridden by
subsequent options, as in the option line users,exec,dev,suid).