Just put a cd into it and mount it with: mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
If you can then get access to the files on the disk, we can rule out the drive. If there is a sound of the drive turning when you try to mount it, we can rule out the drive. You can try to check /mnt/auto/cdrom to see if the information is present there. If it is, we can rule out the drive. However, if the drive is bad, there should be some kind of message to that effect when you try to mount it. If the disks are bad, there should be some kind of message to the effect of "media error." Just do this in a shell buffer and see if there is something that the system tries to tell you. Hope this helps. -- Doug Smith: C.S.F.C. Computer Scientist For CHRIST! _______________________________________________ Oralux mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freearchive.org/mailman/listinfo/oralux
