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
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