Quote Originally Posted by OErjan
about the mounting, what is the problem?
the comands below might help some
dmesg|grep CD
dmesg|grep hd
dmesg|grep sr
mount


then the information in /etc/fstab is good to look at.
if you post the output from these it will be easir to help
Thank you for the offer to help me to get my cdroms working and here is the output from

dmesg | grep CD
dmesg | grep hd
dmesg | grepsr
mount
also the fstab file text.

when I try to mount a CD I get a dialogue box that tells me: mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
please check that the disk is entered correctly

there are no scsi devices in the fstab but the scsi adapters were in the dmesg | grep CD so I hope that this will help you to help me

mybox:~# dmesg | grep CD

hdb: LTN526, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-48246K, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Vendor: LITEON Model: CD-ROM LTN526 Rev: YH0X
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12

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@mybox:~# dmesg | grep hd
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddMA
hda: ST340810A, ATA DISK drive
hdb: LTN526, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: LITE-ON LTR-48246K, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: LITE-ON DVDRW LDW-411S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 78165360 sectors (40021 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=4865/255/63
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >

hdb: attached ide-scsi driver.
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
hdd: attached ide-scsi driver.
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@mybox:~# dmesg | grep sr
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr2 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 52x/52x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 12x/48x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
sr2: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
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@mybox:~# mount
/dev/hda7 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/root.old on /initrd type ext2 (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
/dev/pts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
/proc/bus/usb on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw,devmode=0666)
automount(pid545) on /mnt/auto type autofs (rw,fd=4,pgrp=545,minproto=2,maxproto=4)
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# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom2 /cdrom2 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda6 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0
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