CD-ROM and DVD-ROM don't show up as mounted media

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I installed opensuse v11 for x86 a few months ago… all worked fine, could see the CD-ROM and DVD-ROM… then I was trying to use K3B to burn data to disc and it didn’t work… and now I cannot even see the CD & DVD-ROM drives in sysinfo - although they do show up in the log and the hardware monitor. When I look using K3B at blank media, it just says there’s no disc. I’ve tried using several different blank discs, and I’ve tried reading numerous articles found through Google… no luck. It appears that the drives are detected in BIOS and by the Linux O/S, but won’t auto-mount, and I don’t know enough command-line linux to mount them manually… help please!
Ian (imcampbe@hotmail.com)

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k3b should be from the packman repo with the codecs package too

Mounted media is in this dir
/media

in kde3
right click desktop - configure
behavior
device icons
check show device icons
apply

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Thanks for your help!

There are no files in the /media folder.

I followed the instructions to show device icons on the desktop and it seemed to work, but nothing changed.

When I try “mount cdrom” logged into terminal as root, I get an error message:
linux-866t:~ # mount cdrom
mount: can’t find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

I’ll try getting the packman repo (I looked on the web and found where I can get it) and see what that does.

I looked in /etc/fstab and found this:
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP1604NS013J10X538073-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_SAMSUNG_SP1604NS013J10X538073-part1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

and in mtab, this:
/dev/sda1 / ext3 rw,acl,user_xattr 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
securityfs /sys/kernel/security securityfs rw 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0

Any further suggestions?
Thanks
Ian

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I tried the packman - it was successful, but didn’t solve the problem. My K3b is now version 1.0.5, on KDE 3.5.9 rel 49.1, OpenSUSE 11.0.
Note: K3b detects the two drives - a CD-ROM and a DVD-RW - and can even see the contents of the Linux install DVD - but Konqueror does not see the drives at all. Neither do they show up on “My Computer” or on the SUSE start button menu.

The computer itself is an HP Pavilion model a520n, with factory stock specs aside from an upgrade to 1 GB of RAM. (chipset NForce2, ASUS A7N8V-LA, 160GB hard drive, onboard GeForce4MX video, HP DVDwriter 400c, Samsung SC148A CD-ROM, etc.

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There is an old solution here and I used it ages ago and it worked fine. Read carefully. And you need to be editing as su

Suse 10.1 Automount Solution - openSUSE Forums

reboot after

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I managed to get the system to burn CD’s - but not DVD’s. It will mount CD’s and DVD’s that have data on them, but blank DVD’s show up as “no media present” in K3b. Blank CD’s kick off the K3b automatically.

I’m using Philips DVD-R’s that have worked flawlessly on this workstation when it had Windows XP installed, and they work on another Windows XP workstation just fine.

Any ideas?

I looked at that “old solution” that was mentioned, but I’m a newbie to Linux and that looks really, really complicated to me. I might try it anyways though when I’m less tired.

Thanks for any suggestions that you may have!
Ian

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Might I suggest you add this repo (Name it: KDE3 Build Service)
Index of /repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_11.0

Then in Software Management
filter by repo
select that new repo
click on Packages tab at top of page and select update all in this list if newer ver. avail

when done
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace

The mount issue with your DVD’s is a bit puzzling.
There doesn’t seem much point using the link I gave you earlier, as it seems the media is mounting, it’s just an issue with the DVD’s.
Do you only have one type of blank DVD media to hand? Though if it has worked before it should be fine.
Check in Packman and make sure you have
libdvdnav,
libdvdread4

and obviously
k3bcodecs as well as k3b itself

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Did not work!

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Also did not work!