[newbie] Please Help! Unable to mount Yamaha CRW4416E (read only!) in Mandrake 7.0

2000-01-22 Thread tom
I just installed Mandrake 7.0 yesterday, but have been unable to mount my Yamaha CRW4416E CRW drive! (I have no problems with NT or Win2K doing so!) BTW, I am only trying to use the drive as a cdrom in Linux (so far!) In my system I have an older 12x CDROM drive which mounts fine with the

Re: [newbie] Please Help! Unable to mount Yamaha CRW4416E (read only!) in Mandrake 7.0

2000-01-22 Thread Richard Yevchak
I had a similar problem. First make sure you can mount the CD-RW manually. I think the installer is smart enough to determine the drive is CD-RW, so it sets up the SCSI emulation for you. It just doesn't change fstab to reflect this. Try (assuming you want to mount it on /mnt/cdrom2): mount