Aonghus Posted May 17, 2005 Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 (edited) Hi, I've just installed Mandriva LE 2005 and can't access my CD drives. The /dev/cdrom etc. files exist, and are linked to hdc and hdd (I have a dvd-rom master and cd-rw slave), and the /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 folders are there too of course, but apart from a little whirring, inserting a CD does nothing. I know my drives are supported, because they worked fine under 10.1 CE. Can anyone tell me why this might be? I'm not too experienced with Linux, so I'm quite at a loss. Any help would be great. Thanks, Aonghus P.S. I can post any other info that may be relevant - not really sure what to check at the moment. Edited May 18, 2005 by Aonghus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aonghus Posted May 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2005 Further to the above: I just tried installing a package from MCC with the installation DVD in and it worked. The entry in the media sources refers to /mnt/cdrom/. So, I tried adding the DVD of contribs that I have too, but it couldn't read from it. It seems that urpmi can access the cd somehow... I still can't browse the CDs at all - /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 are both empty when I have CDs in (both from konquerer and the command lne, if that's relevant). In my /dev directory I have the following: hdc hdd cdrom -> hdd cdrom0 -> hdc cdrom1 -> hdd cdrw0 -> hdd This is proving most frustrating, especially since I discovered that urpmi could get at the drive but I can't! Any ideas on how to solve this would be thoroughly appreciated, regards, Aonghus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted May 18, 2005 Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 Run gnome-volume-properties and look at the options... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aonghus Posted May 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2005 (edited) Thanks for the suggestion adamw - always seems to be you who answers my queries! The gnome-volume-properties options are set to mount CDs already. Oddly, the drives seem to have magically started working again - at first I couldn't get a CD of any kind working, but now I can browse the contents of video DVDs and CDs, and Audio CDs are functioning nicely too. I've just been installing linmodem drivers, so I don't see how this happened. Perhaps it was the rebooting..... The only remaining difficulty is not being able to load my Contribs DVD - but its probably just a bad burn or something. Works ok in windows on my other comp, but can't copy all of the contents, so some things must be corrupted. I suppose I'll try to copy what I can and use it from the harddrive. Thanks for your help Adamw - I didn't know about the gnome-volume-properties thing. Aside from that - apologies to everyone for creating a largely pointless thread...I suppose I ought to try a little harder before running for help Aonghus Edited May 18, 2005 by Aonghus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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