Although my cd-rw recognizes and plays audio cd’s, it will not recognize data cd’s. Either purchased software installation disks or home made data cd’s - they are not recognized. The cd drive light shows the cd being read.
The cd-rw drive worked fine with Suse v10 & whatever flavor of kde was packaged with that distro.
I get a popup from the device notifier for ‘optical disk’ called ‘volume’ but that actually points to /media/disk and that is a hpfs partition (sda2) for os/2 on my hard drive .
When I look at the Device Actions there are listed 3 filemanager choices. One does not work, giving an error message: Device conditions are not valid, blah, blah. I cannot edit this one to see what the conditions are. The other 2 filemanager operations are for audio CD and Floppy disk or another storage device (usb works so I presume that this is for usb). A screen shot of my device settings and cd-rw info is at temp :: Device Actions picture by Jon229 - Photobucket
I have checked my group membership and added cdrom & disk. I have also tried creating a new user. I previously created a mount point and successfully mounted data cd’s. I now understand this is not necessary and have removed the mount point.
I am wondering if the filemanager selection that does not work is the cause of my problme and I’d like to find out what settings I could use to add to the device actions or any other suggestion for something to try.
Does it exhibit this behavior with all data disks? Not a likely cause, but have you tried using a lens cleaning disk in the CD?
I have not tried a lens cleaner. Audio disks, both manufactured & home-made work fine, offering me a notification popup where I can choose which app to use on the CD.
Every data disk that I’ve tried fails (nothing happens except the read light indicates the disk is read), both manufactured & home made. However, 3 home-made data disks that I just now checked worked with your mount command.
Tommyttt: Thanks so much for the help you’ve given so far. Do you think if I added an entry to the device actions this can be made to work correctly?
