I am unable to access any CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs on my dvd rw ("DVD ReWritable" on the faceplate). This is a new Dell 8400 running FC-1. Here are the relevant /dev entries: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Jul 26 09:44 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 4 08:49 /dev/cdwriter -> /dev/sg0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Aug 5 10:45 /dev/dvd -> /dev/scd0 brwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 11, 0 Sep 15 2003 /dev/scd0 crwxrwxrwx 1 root disk 21, 0 Sep 15 2003 /dev/sg0 With an audio CD in the drive, gnome-cd reports the following on the console: ** (gnome-cd:4175): WARNING **: Error reading CD header ** (gnome-cd:4175): WARNING **: Error reading CD header ** (gnome-cd:4175): WARNING **: : (linux_cdrom_play): Drive still not ready ** (gnome-cd:4175): WARNING **: Error reading CD header ** (gnome-cd:4175): WARNING **: Error reading CD header In the window, it says "drive open" even though the drive is closed and loaded with an audio CD. (The CD plays fine on my other PC.) With a data CD in the drive: root# mount /mnt/cdrom/ mount: No medium found A variety of other mount invocations yield the same results. I'm also unable to do any kind of cd-writing (no surprise, given the problems above). I haven't tried any DVDs.

Two other notes: 1. "eject" works... not sure if this is relevant, but makes me think there isn't a COMPLETE disconnect. 2. cdrecord -scanbus returns: Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a19 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2003 J�rg Schilling Linux sg driver version: 3.1.25 Using libscg version 'schily-0.7' cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial libscg transport code version (schily - Red Hat-scsi-linux-sg.c-1.75-RH '@(#)scsi-linux-sg.c 1.75 02/10/21 Copyright 1997 J. Schilling'). scsibus0: 0,0,0 0) 'TEAC ' 'DVD+RW DV-W58E ' 'D.0C' Removable CD-ROM 0,1,0 1) * 0,2,0 2) * 0,3,0 3) * 0,4,0 4) * 0,5,0 5) * 0,6,0 6) * 0,7,0 7) *

Do you have any other drives in your computer other than the DVDRW? FYI you wont be able to mount audio CDs as you would data, just make sure that the audio cable is attached to your soundcard. For a data cd try the following command: # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom or # mount -t iso9660 /dev/sg0 /mnt/cdrom Post up your /etc/fstab too.... Are you running a 2.4.x or a 2.6.x kernel? You can find out with: $ uname -a

Kernel version 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 I'm not trying to mount audio cd's... just trying to report another data point that I can't even play audio cd's through cd player software. As far as other drives, just I have a SATA hard drive.

Also, those mount commands failed.

Try the following command as root: # mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom If that works: # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/cdwriter # ln -sf /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd to change the incorrect symbolic links. Now in future you should be able to just: $ mount /mnt/cdrom as well as being able to use /dev/dvd and /dev/cdwriter.

It turned out to be a bad drive... swapped one out of another PC and it works fine. Thanks for the help.