Quote Originally Posted by animated
ok i added

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hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
so now when i type

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dmesg|grep CD
i get

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hdc: HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR8161B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: HL-DT-ST GCE-8481B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: HL-DT-ST  Model: CD-RW GCE-8481B   Rev: 1.01
  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
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
this is diffrent from before.
//edit Which one is my cd-rw drive and which is my dvd drive?
From the naming of the drives in the output I will go with the hdc entry.



are we geting closer to the solution?
Yes the drives are detected as they should be now you need to tell us how you have tried to access the drives now that they are correctly detected and this need to be explained better than it does not work like in your first post. A couple of things you can do if the drives do not work is check the links eg. ls -l /dev/cdrom, ls -l /dev/cdrom1, ls -l /dev/dvd and you should follow the links to these links to get to the underlying device:

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>$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 2004-03-30 22:40 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/cdrom0
>$ ls -l /dev/cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 2004-03-30 22:40 /dev/cdrom0 -> /dev/scd0

>$ ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 2004-03-30 22:40 /dev/dvd -> /dev/scd0
This shows me that my /dev/cdrom is linked to the /dev/cdrom0 which in turn links to the real device /dev/scd0. For the /dev/dvd link it shows that when I made it I just put it to the device directly and did not bother with another link in between. If I am correct and the hdc entry is your DVD eg it is the first device you have in windows and the rw is the second then the links for any device you want to use it for should lead to the /dev/scd0 and the links for the cdrw should be going to the /dev/scd1. Now it is a little hard to tell you which way to set the links up without knowing how you want/prefer to have them setup but obviously you want the /dev/dvd to point to the actual dvd player so you would as root assuming I am right about the location ln -sf /dev/scd0 /dev/dvd if the link to the /dev/dvd does not point to the correct device now. So tell us how you want the links setup and anything you have done trying to access the drives now.

One more thing I usually change the entries in the /etc/fstab to the /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 if there is a second device to use tha actual devices instead of the links so you would if you want to do the same in your /etc/fstab use:

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/dev/scd0 /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 
/dev/scd1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
Instead of.

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/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0