Stephen,

While I got you on the topic...

I have the DVD (read-only), and then a CDRW, scd0 and scd1, respectfully.

fstab has my DVD as "ro" both linked to scd0 as cdaudio, dvd, and cdrom. Whereas, my CDRW is "also" set as "ro" only linked to scd1 as cdrom1.

Here as the problems:
(1) If I place a AUDIO CD in the dvd device, I can't open it and view the audio files, I get a bad file system error, or something like that - In windows, I could open a data cd, or a audio cd for viewing. I "can" open a DVD in the dvd device and view it (as a data cd), and also a data cd.

(2) Considering my scd1 device, my CDRW, is mounting as "ro", will I be able to write to this device with the normal cdrecord, etc... software in Debian? Should I create a new link to scd1, named something like "cdrw" and make the entry in fstab as r+w, or something?

(3) I haven't tried this yet, but considering that cdrom1 (cdrw) and cdrom (dvd) devices are both the same options in fstab, I would guess that I can't view AUDIO cd's in my CDRW either. I can play audio cd's in both devices by just using XMMS - and "pointing" them to the devices, and both devices can be mounted, considering a DATA cd is in them, but not audio, and only the dvd can view or play a DVD - which is understandable, and good.

(4) Not using the "record" to a cd within Debian yet, can the packages "normally" supplied with Knoppix on a hdd install, record both AUDIO and DATA cd's, this is actually a three part question: (4a) Can you write a cd in AUDIO ONLY, (4b) Can you write a cd in DATA ONLY, and lastly, (4c) Can you write a cd in MIXED MODE (audio and data on the same cd) ? ? ?

(partial inclusion of my fstab file, only the cdroms)
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 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

Note that a ls -l on the following, display the following link:
/dev/cdrom -> scd0
/dev/cdrom1 -> scd1
/dev/dvd -> scd0
/dev/cdaudio -> scd0

Thanks for any additional help/information on this...
Cuddles