I recently upgraded my Mandrake installation from 9.0 to 9.2. After the installation was finished, I entered "cdrecord -scanbus" in the console. The result I got showed only my Teac CD Burner, and not my Teac CDROM. 0,0,0 0) 'TEAC ' 'CD-W540E ' '1.0C' 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) * I then took a look at my etc/fstab file and found that my CDROM drive was being referenced hdc instead of scd1 as it was in the previous installation. Before I made the change: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 After I made the change: none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd1,fs=udf:iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 I then rebooted the machine and tried cdrecord -scanbus again. There was no change, my CDROM drive was still not recognized. I then decided to take a look inside /dev. I found that ther was a file called "scd0", but nothing for "scd1". Is this the source of my CDROM drive not being recongized, or did I over look something else? I did not post my entire fstab because I did not want this to be too long and rambling.

you do not have to reboot to check out cd drive, just mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cd (or /mnt/cdrom) cdrecord is showing you the "physical" (in this case, emulated) drive. It will not change. If the cd in the drive is a music cd, you can not mount it, but you can play & copy it - man cdparanoia

Thanks for the above advice. It turns out that I forgot to check the line in lilo.conf that starts with "append". When I first looked at this line it there was a statement referencing my CDRW drive, but nothing pointing to my CDROM. I duplicated the statement refereeing to the CDRW, and added a new statement for the CDRW drive. Now when I type "cdrecord -scanbus" both drives are listed.