Can't use CD-ROM drive properly

[Zyzzyva100]

Well, I have pretty much all my other issues worked out now, so I figured I would try to fix my cd-rom. The problem is that I can only mount and then unmount one disc. After that, the drive becomes unresponsive (ie can't open it) and I have to reboot the machine. If I try to remount before rebooting, it says it has, but none of the files or folders actually show up, and the mount option is still available in the menu.

Also, I can't get any media program or cd player etc to see audio cd's or dvds. I get an error saying there is a cd-rom read or access error/I don't have the right permissions. I am in the audio and cdrom groups, however, and audio works fine for everything else. I simply can't figure out what the issue is. When I am able to munt a cd, it works fine, but otherwise I can't do anything at all.

The drive is a lite-on dvd +/-r/w burner that is about a year old, and I am using KDE as my gui. So, any ideas on why I can't use the drive properly?

Here is my fstab, not sure where the very last line came from. I emerged a buch of multimedia stuff while at work today, so it must have come from that. However, it was broken before that, and is still broken now.

[keyson]

Hi.

You have emerged hal and dbus. Hal is the program that gives you the line in the fstab.
It does it by fstab-sync (may say so in the top of the fstab).
Check that hald and dbus is starting in default runlevel.

[Zyzzyva100]

Well, at least I can now use cd's normally (now I just have hdc cd burner) instead of that and the cd-rom drive. I will have to keep looking though, as I still can't play audio discs through it.

Edit: Well it still locks up after I use it, and I can't eject from the menu. I think there is still a basic hardware issue here. (hald and dbus were part of rc-update, so I have that right at least, I think)

[keyson]

Check that you are in the cdrom group

[Zyzzyva100]

Yep, I was already in the cdrom group, and I changed the kscd setting to /dev/hdc, and I still get the same error (I'm assuming its a read error now, since the group settings have been right all along)

[Zyzzyva100]

anyone else have any ideas?

my cdrom drive locks up as soon as I try to do something it doesn't like (such as eject from the menu).

[dreadhead]

Hi!

Also my CD-Drive locks up when trying to eject it after use... There is no difference if I try to eject it with the eject command or by pressing the eject button on the drive... The CD/DVD gets unmounted but the disc keeps spinning and the LED on the drive keeps flashing until I reboot the Machine...

For example I just tried to burn a DVD with K3B. After creating the image K3B checked the disc and told me to insert an empty one. But I couldn't find a way to open the Drive except rebooting...
When I burn a CD/DVD and the initial Disc is ok to write then everything works fine and the disc gets ejected after the burn process...
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[Zyzzyva100]

Well I was doing some more searching and reading in the forums, and it looks as though the problem may be caused by ivman and kde 3.4 not getting along.

I tried to unmerge ivman, but it still appeared in rc-update. Unmerging it seemed to get eject to work with media discs, but when I used data discs, I still couldn't unmount or eject. Both failed. I tried it from the console too, all I got was errors that the drive was busy.

[keyson]

Hi.

If you check the kiomedia slave in kde.
Do a

[Zyzzyva100]

Well its working now. I just unmerged ivman and removed it from rc-update, and now the cd drive works as it whould, I can mount and unmount and eject without problem.