On Wednesday 15 August 2001 9:03 pm, you wrote: > > it may be a SCSI emulation problem. From a console or terminal of your > > choice, type: > > > > ls -l /dev/cdrom2 > > > > And report back what you see. > > /dev/cdrom2 -> scd0 > > just for kicks, I did the same thing for the dvd drive and was rewarded > with: > /dev/cdrom -> hdc > Ok, this means more than likely you have SCSI emulation set up, only for your cd burner, and your DVD drive is plain IDE. Try this next, from a console or terminal, type: ls -ld /mnt/cdrom2 and see what the permissions are. You should see something like "drwxrwxr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 9 1998 /mnt/cdrom2" The important part the the first. You should see "drwxrwxr-x" and not something like "-rw-rw-r--". The key here is the first letter. If it is a d, then it is a directory. if it is a - then it is a regular file. It should be a directory, and something got messed up if its not. The next important part is the following letters. It is 3 sets of rwx (read,write,execute) for the permissions. If there is a dash in place of the letter, it means that permission isnt set. For this particular directory, it should have at least r-x. There are HOWTO's out there for more explaination of what it means. The other thing is the "supermount" part in fstab. When things arnt working right, you should turn that off. To turn that off, do this: umount /mnt/cdrom2 #this may or may not do anything Then edit fstab- comment out the line for /mnt/cdrom2 (just put a # in front of the line) Now, put a CD in the drive that you know is good. To mount it manually, type: mount /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 And let us know what the output for that is. If there is no output, then do this: cd /mnt/cdrom2 ls * and give the output of that. -- Jay Kline list at slushpupie.com http://www.slushpupie.com There is no such thing as fortune. Try again.