internal cd and external dvd drives not working please help

[swp6499]

i cannot seem to access any cds i put in either my cd or dvd drives...im a noob can someone please help

[swp6499]

heres my lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev
01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem
Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5702X Gigabit Ethernet (rev 02)
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:01.1 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ711EC1 SmartCardBus Controller (rev 20)
02:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
03:00.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
03:00.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43)
03:00.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04)

if that will help

[Toonytony]

did you set up the drives in /etc/fstab?
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[swp6499]

here are the contents of my /etc/fstab

/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

to be totally honest i know nothing about setting up anything in fstab

[Toonytony]

[sonicbhoc]

That second entry should say /dev/hdc.

Is your kernel custom or genkernel made? if it is custom, make sure you have enabled the correct options in the menuconfig for the hardware you've got.

[swp6499]

i added that to my fstab and it added an icon in my computer folder but when i click on cdrom i get this

mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist

my fstab looks like this now

/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0

im lost..all help is greatly appreciated...thanks

[sonicbhoc]

mkdir /mnt/cdrom should fix that.

Also, are you using KDE or GNOME? there are tools that work with both of those environments and a few more that work independently of GUIs that can automount media.

[swp6499]

it is a genkernel with vanilla sources

2.6.17.6

it was the only way i could get it setup

thanks for all the help so far

[swp6499]

when trying to make the directory i get this error in terminal...

localhost stephen # mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/cdrom': No such file or directory


and im using gnome 2.14

[sonicbhoc]

mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom should fix that.

It's odd that you don't have a /mnt directory. I wonder why...?

I don't know anything about automounting in GNOME, unfortunately.

[swp6499]

thank you that got it working...will that permanently fix it or will i have to do this every time i want to use my cd drvie? thanks

[swp6499]

and also would you happen to know how to get my external dvd drive working its a usb 2.0 dvd-rw on a usb 2.0 card in my laptop?

[swp6499]

heres the output from lsusb

Bus 007 Device 002: ID 152e:2507 LG (HLDS)
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 045e:007d Microsoft Corp. Notebook Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

it seems it finds the external drive on bus 007 being that its an LG

[swp6499]

and now that my cdrom works i cant unmount it...there is no right click eject or unmount...and in terminal if i cd /mnt/cdrom and type eject this is what i get

localhost cdrom # eject
umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy
umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy
eject: unmount of `/mnt/cdrom' failed


all help is greatly appreciated

[aypro]

fisrt get out of the cdrom folder

[swp6499]

that got it ejected...but i wasnt in the folder when i was trying to unmount it...and it kept saying it was busy?