Try typing "dmesg|grep CD" into the command line. Here's what I get on RH9:
hdc: PHILIPS CDRW3210S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1612, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive Last time I checked, tho, the dvd reading was misconfigured, but I don't think that is evident from the above 2 lines = ) If you can copy the list on the output from your dmesg|grep... that would be a handy starting place. You can grep hd instead of CD to see hard drives, roughly speaking. regards, Ben PS - burners usually get mapped to the sd* devices (a,b,c,...) On Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:08:58 -0800 "John C. Van Gelder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Some of the CD done on the XP machine were drag and drop some were | burned with Roxio easy CD creator, when I am in windows both of the CD | drives seem to work OK. I have had some problems with some of the XP | drag/drop discs working in anything but the CD R/RW drive, when I am in | windows. I havn't had Linux up and running very long and am at the | moment not smart enough to ask an intelligent question. I checked a few | hundred FAQ's but did not see anything that looked similar. | | I wonder if I have a jumper that is in the wrong place, and it has not | been a problem with windows, but is in Linux..?? | | Thanks for the response. | John | | | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | >When you created your CD's in XP did you just drag and drop | >files to them? What software did you use? The CD may be UDF in | >which case an older drive would have trouble reading from it or | >support may not be in your kernel. I would expect blanks to spit | >out an error rather than continue to spin. Could just be the way | >the drive is accessed by RH. Try disabling 'automount' if you're | >using it. | > | > | > | >--- "John C. Van Gelder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | > | >>>I am new to Linux, and have encountered some problems with | >>> | >>> | >>my CD R/RW | >> | >> | >>>drive. When I insert a disk in the drive and mount the disk | >>> | >>> | >>it locks my | >> | >> | >>>machine up. It is my second CD drive. The other is a Read | >>> | >>> | >>only, I have | >> | >> | >>>noticed that if I put a disk in the read only drive that it | >>> | >>> | >>will not | >> | >> | >>>read some of the disks I have burned on my windows machine | >>> | >>> | >>running XP. | >> | >> | > | > | > | >>>Linux is recognizing my floppy drive and my zip drive, and | >>> | >>> | >>both seem to | >> | >> | >>>be working properly, the CD ROM drive works as long as I use | >>> | >>> | >>factory | >> | >> | >>>CD's and some of the CD's I have burned on the ME side of | >>> | >>> | >>the machine. | >> | >> | > | > | >__________________________________ | >Do you Yahoo!? | >Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! | >http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ | >_______________________________________________ | >EuG-LUG mailing list | >[EMAIL PROTECTED] | >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug | > | > | _______________________________________________ | EuG-LUG mailing list | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug -- _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug