LE 2005 doesn't see the CD/DVD drive just loaded

[wilcal]

I have a successful load of Mandriva LE 2005 using

three disks. But, after Gnome comes up it no longer

sees the CD/DVD drive. The Mandrake Control Center sees no

CD/DVD Burner. There is no CD-ROM icon on the desktop.

Loading of any kind of disk results in nothing.

 

Running SU in Terminal:

cdrecord -scanbus

results in:

scsibus1:

1,0,0 100) 'SONY ' 'DVD RW DW-D26A ' 'JYS1' Removable CD-ROM

 

cdrecord seems to be fine and running in su mode

floppy works fine and I can see, and copy files

off and on a floppy in the Gnome environment.

 

fstab looks like this:

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details

/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1

/dev/sda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=ext2:vfat,--,umask=0022,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

 

I do not see a /dev/cdroms directory

there is a mnt/cdrom directory, nothing in it

 

Did I miss something in the config set up?

 

Thanks for any hints

[ianw1974]

mnt/cdrom won't show anything in it unless a CD is in the CD drive. If you put one in, have you checked whether the drive then appears on your desktop? Or is accessible through Gnome?

 

If not, when you have a CD in the drive, in the CLI go to /mnt/cdrom and see if anything is listed and report back.

[wilcal]

mnt/cdrom won't show anything in it unless a CD is in the CD drive.  If you put one in, have you checked whether the drive then appears on your desktop?  Or is accessible through Gnome?

 

If not, when you have a CD in the drive, in the CLI go to /mnt/cdrom and see if anything is listed and report back.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

 

Thanks for the help. No, for some reason Gnome does not see the CD/DVD drive. I checked again to see if I could run cdrecord in su mode in a terminal in Gnome and it rreally does work. Putting any kind of CD or DVD disc into the drive makes no difference. One thing I am going to try is to go through the install process again and see if there is someting I missed there.

 

Thanks.

 

My tip of the day is that when you are playing with multiple OS's, as I do,

www.killdisk.com

run from a bootable Win98 floppy is a hugely valuable tool. It will completely

fill the disk drive from the MBR sector all the way to the end with "0"'s. It's the only

way to reload a new OS of any kind.

[ianw1974]

I just tried your tip, and it's wiped out my whole hard disk. I thought it was supposed to help me reload a new OS of any kind?!?

 

:D

 

Actually, in this instance I am joking, but that can be a very dangerous tip for newbies that aren't quite sure what they're doing. It's really a secure data erasure tool. For reloading OS's, format works well for Windows based, and using the partition tool during installation of a Linux OS will format Linux based partitions without a worry, without going to something as extreme as data erasure.

 

Of course the partitions can be deleted with fdisk for DOS/Windows. Windows can remove your Linux partitions too (it just doesn't know what they are), although you can use the partition tool on the Linux install CD to remove partitions as well. That's if you really, really need to erase your data.

 

Tip: Always have a backup plan in case it all goes wrong. :D

[wilcal]

Solved

 

As mentioned in the first posting in this thread

the MoBo sets up the CD/DVD-Rom as a SCSI drive.

So for whatever reason Mandriva LE 2005 sets the fstab

file such that the CD/DVD-Rom drive to not

automatically mount the drive at boot. The initial

line in fstab is as follows:

 

/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

 

I simply changed this line to be as follows:

 

/dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,iocharset=iso8859-1,auto,ro,exec 0 0

 

Rebooted the system and the CD/DVD-Rom drive appears

on my Gnome desktop and operates properly.