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semck

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Registered: 2009-04-03

Posts: 4

hi, and CD ROM not recognized

Hi all,

I am a new user. Thanks for the great distribution. I love it so far.

One problem though. My CD drives are not recognized. They were for installation, or at least the install one was, which is enough. I have two, a CDRW and a DVDRW, secondary master and slave. When I type mount /media/cd, I get a pause, then a message, /dev/sr0: Unknown device.

I'd really appreciate any help.

Thank you,
Stephen

Cyrusm

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From: Bozeman, MT

Registered: 2007-11-15

Posts: 1,053

Re: hi, and CD ROM not recognized

is your fstab configured correctly?
my entrys for the cd/dvd drives look like:

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom  auto  ro,user,noauto,unhide 0  0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd  auto r0,user,noauto,unhide 0  0

see   http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab

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MattSmith

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From: Wellington, New Zealand

Registered: 2009-02-08

Posts: 108

Re: hi, and CD ROM not recognized

also, you have to say what your mounting to where, and make sure ur root

example

sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

also make sure there's a folder in media that is titled cdrom

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perbh

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From: Republic of Texas

Registered: 2005-03-04

Posts: 765

Re: hi, and CD ROM not recognized

The first you have to do is to make triply sure you know the 'device' name of your cd's - ie is it /dev/hdc, /dev/hdd, /dev/sr0 (obviously not - according to your post) or /dev/sr1?

The only way to find that out is via the command 'dmesg'. Pipe it through 'less' (dmesg | less) and see if you can recognize the text that describes your cd's.
Let us assume that it is /dev/hdc, in which case (as root) you do:

mkdir /mnt/cd
mount -o ro /dev/hdd /mnt/cd