Re: Problems with drives under suse 8.1

On Wednesday 18 December 2002 09:24, Gary Stanley wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem with a pretty standard default Suse 8.1 installation
> where by I have one Philips 1200 CD rewriter & a panasonic 106s dvd
> drive and Suse seems to be reconising them wrong.
> If I stick a dvd in the dvd drive it gets mounted under
> /dev/cdrecorder !! I'm also unable to mount/play any audio cd's in
> either drive although sound works fine. (Yes they both have audio
> cables connected from them to my sound card)
>
> I'm a bit of a Linux newbie so I may just be being totally stupid but
> I'm a Windows (hiss, boo) IT techie by day and like to think I know a
> bit when it comes to solving problems but I could do with some help
> with this PLLLEEEEASSSSEEEEE.
>
> From what I've read/learned the entries in FSTAB have a lot to do
> with drive allocation so the lines that relate to my drives are as
> follows:
>
> /dev/cdrom         /media/cdrom      auto       ro,noauto,user,exec  
> 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder    /media/cdrecorder auto      
> ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0 /dev/dvd           /media/dvd        auto  
>     ro,noauto,user,exec   0 0
>
Hi,
I am not a device wizard myself but you should check with /dev/media
what that whole stuff is linked to.
Also if you want to use the cd burner you better make sure that scsi 
emulation is enabled for it.

Klaus