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From: Mark Fraser (News) on 10 Jan 2007 15:04 Hope someone can help a newbie in distress!! I'm having trouble accessing a DVD-ROM drive from within KDE on Fedora Core 6. My machine consists of one CD-RW drive and a DVD-ROM drive. I can mount and view a CD in both drives, but if I put a DVD-ROM into the drive I can't do anything with it. I know it will read DVDs as I installed Linux using that drive and it will play DVD Videos. I've done a search on the Internet and it looks like I'm going to have to modify the etc/fstab file, is this correct and how do I know what to add? TIA Mark -- ______________________________________________________ |\ /| ark Fraser /mfraser(a)ukgateway.net | \/ | Somerset /Using !Pluto on an Acorn SA RISC PC | |___________/You know what the sig means!
From: Lionel B on 11 Jan 2007 04:41 On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:04:21 +0000, Mark Fraser (News) wrote: > Hope someone can help a newbie in distress!! > > I'm having trouble accessing a DVD-ROM drive [snip] > I've done a search on the Internet and it looks like I'm going to have > to modify the etc/fstab file, is this correct Probably yes. > and how do I know what to add? Post your /etc/fstab here and we'll see what we can do :) -- Lionel B
From: Mark Fraser on 11 Jan 2007 13:40 Lionel B wrote: > On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:04:21 +0000, Mark Fraser (News) wrote: > >> Hope someone can help a newbie in distress!! >> >> I'm having trouble accessing a DVD-ROM drive > > [snip] > >> I've done a search on the Internet and it looks like I'm going to have >> to modify the etc/fstab file, is this correct > > Probably yes. > >> and how do I know what to add? > > Post your /etc/fstab here and we'll see what we can do :) > This is what /etc/fstab shows: /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 I have added the following line, as hda is what kinfocenter shows as my DVD drive, hdb is the CD-RW: /dev/hda / auto defaults 0 0 Not sure if this is right as hda also seems to be my harddrive.
From: James Wilkinson on 11 Jan 2007 15:45 Mark Fraser (News) wrote: > Hope someone can help a newbie in distress!! > > I'm having trouble accessing a DVD-ROM drive from within KDE on Fedora Core > 6. My machine consists of one CD-RW drive and a DVD-ROM drive. I can mount > and view a CD in both drives, but if I put a DVD-ROM into the drive I can't > do anything with it. > > I know it will read DVDs as I installed Linux using that drive and it will > play DVD Videos. > > I've done a search on the Internet and it looks like I'm going to have to > modify the etc/fstab file, is this correct and how do I know what to > add? FC6 does things differently -- normally, a CD or DVD should just mount. When you insert a DVD, does anything get logged to /var/log/messages? James. -- E-mail: james@ | Please do not put sandwiches in the disk drive. aprilcottage.co.uk |
From: Lionel B on 12 Jan 2007 05:19
On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 18:40:44 +0000, Mark Fraser wrote: > Lionel B wrote: >> On Wed, 10 Jan 2007 20:04:21 +0000, Mark Fraser (News) wrote: >> >>> Hope someone can help a newbie in distress!! >>> >>> I'm having trouble accessing a DVD-ROM drive >> >> [snip] >> >>> I've done a search on the Internet and it looks like I'm going to have >>> to modify the etc/fstab file, is this correct >> >> Probably yes. >> >>> and how do I know what to add? >> >> Post your /etc/fstab here and we'll see what we can do :) >> > This is what /etc/fstab shows: > > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > I have added the following line, as hda is what kinfocenter shows as my > DVD drive, hdb is the CD-RW: > > /dev/hda / auto defaults 0 0 > > Not sure if this is right as hda also seems to be my harddrive. [ This may all be irrelevant - see reply by James Wilkinson in this thread. Also I see no entry for your CD-RW there, yet you say it works... so this probably *is* irrelevant. Have you tried asking on a Fedora forum? That aside, here goes anyway... ] Looks like your system uses Logical Volume Management (LVM http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/) rather than a trad Linux partitioning, so I guess hda could be your DVD. Not sure you'd want to mount it at / though, since you're mounting your root partition there... what actually happens if you type mount /dev/hda as an ordinary user/as root? On my system (RHEL, also set up with LVM) for comparison I have a fstab entry for my CD-RW: /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 To see what the various options mean: man mount You specified "defaults"; looking at the "defaults" option, on my system I see: defaults Use default options: rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async. Note the "nouser" nouser Forbid an ordinary (i.e., non-root) user to mount the filesystem. This is the default. For my CD-RW I have "noauto" set, so I have to explicitly mount the CD-RW. Also on my system access appears to be controlled by pam - hence the "pamconsole" and "managed" options in my entry. Not sure how your system might be set up, though. So you could try setting up a mount point for your drive and playing around a bit with the mount options, but I'd recommend you check the FC forum. -- Lionel B |