cdrom not working

[crashandburn0420]

i know what alot of you are thinking "why dont you just google it and find it" well i tried and my problem is my dvd-rw and cd-rom drives arent working. here is my /etc/fstab

  GNU nano 1.3.7                            File: /etc/fstab


# <fs>                  <mountpoint>    <type>          <opts>          <dump/pass>

# NOTE&#58; If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1               /boot           ext2            defaults,noatime        1 2
/dev/hda2               none            swap            sw              0 0
/dev/hda3               /               ext3            noatime         0 1

none                    /proc           proc            defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,user     0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom1      /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,user     0 0

# NOTE&#58; The next line is critical for boot!

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory &#40;shm_open, shm_unlink&#41;.
# &#40;tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files&#41;

[dylunio]

Are you sure that your cd devices /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 ? I have /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd as my dvd and cd-rw drives.

[crashandburn0420]

i think mine is that also, ill try it right now

[borromini]

cdrom, cdrom0, cdrom1, ... are mere symlinks to hdc, hdd, and so on.

ls -l /dev will make that quite clear.

[crashandburn0420]

Are you sure that your cd devices /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 ? I have /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd as my dvd and cd-rw drives.

thank you that worked, but only for my burner not for the regular cdrom drive

[dylunio]

have you checked that it's not /dev/hda or hdb?

Also looking at your fstab I notice that you have used the same mountpoint for both...maybe it'd be an idea to create another directory to mount the dvd drive to? e.g. /mnt/dvd ?

[crashandburn0420]

i created the dvd directory and changed the fstab mount point but my cdrom still doesnt work

  GNU nano 1.3.7                            File: /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.18.4.1 2005/01/31 23:05:14 vapier Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency).  It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.

# <fs>                  <mountpoint>    <type>          <opts>          <dump/pass>

# NOTE&#58; If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1               /boot           ext2            defaults,noatime        1 2
/dev/hda2               none            swap            sw              0 0
/dev/hda3               /               ext3            noatime         0 1

none                    /proc           proc            defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec     0 0

/dev/hdc        /mnt/dvd        auto            noauto,user     0 0
/dev/hdd        /mnt/cdrom      auto            noauto,user     0 0
# NOTE&#58; The next line is critical for boot!

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory &#40;shm_open, shm_unlink&#41;.
# &#40;tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files&#41;

[dylunio]

Have you checked that your dvd drive isn't /dev/hdb or /dev/hda?

[crashandburn0420]

my hard drive is hda, hdb doesnt work. hdd works but only if i right click and eject it for some reason it cant read it. i guess it just the drive is messed up.

[borromini]

You won't be able to mount optical drives with hdd or hdc. Use the symlinks in /dev. cdrom, cdrom0, cdrom1, ...