cd is IDE i now have it to where it will mount as long as i have a data CD in when i boot but that is the only time i can mount it. unmount take the CD out and try again and it as if it was never there even if i Put the same CD back in and forget about music CDs im running in gnome Jim John Aldrich wrote: > On Tue, 04 Jul 2000, Jim Travnick wrote: > > How do i get my cdrom to work ive typed cd /mnt/cdrom in a terminal > > window but nothing tried xplaycd with a music cd in and i get told i > > have no disk in. when i look in the control center under cd properties > > the command says: gtcd--play--device %d if i click on browse and i go to > > /mnt/cdrom it looks as i don't have any files in there what gives? > > > IDE or SCSI cd? If it's IDE, what position is it on your > IDE chain? Chances are your CDROM never got linked from the > IDE position (assuming it's IDE) to the /dev/cdrom. OR, > your xplaycd doesn't know anything about it. > > I tried an alternate CD Player awhile back and found that > the ONLY cd player that'll work for me is KSCD (under KDE.) > Give that one a shot (assuming you're using KDE) and see if > it works. > > BTW, you can't mount a music CD and you'll never see > anything in /mnt/cdrom unless you have a data CD loaded AND > mounted. > John > > -- > To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" > as the Subject. -- To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
