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    Cannot get cd drives working

    I have a dual boot system with Kubuntu and Windows XP but I cant' get any of my drives working.

    My system has has one cd-rom, one cd-RW and one Iomega zip drive and they work perfectly with XP. With Kubuntu, I can only see the iomega zip drive but when I insert a disk I get the error: “can't find /dev/hdb4 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mttab”

    My fstab file looks like this:

    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/hda3 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
    /dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,n ouser 0 1
    /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
    /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 auto user,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

    When I look under my syslog file I find that both cd-drives are recognised.
    ....
    Aug 30 18:09:09 localhost kernel: [17179577.900000] Probing IDE interface ide1...
    Aug 30 18:09:09 localhost kernel: [17179578.636000] hdc: CD-W540E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
    Aug 30 18:09:09 localhost kernel: [17179579.420000] hdd: CDU5211, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
    ....

    Could any one hand over some suggestions please?

    Thanks in advance.



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    Re: Cannot get cd drives working

    Nobody send any input on this and I thought to post out my own solution to the problem to help others. After changing and changing the fstab file I got the 2 cd drives working when I modified it as follows:

    # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
    #
    # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
    proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
    /dev/hda3 / ext3 nouser,defaults,errors=remount-ro,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 1
    /dev/hda1 /media/hda1 ntfs defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,uid=0,gid=46,auto,rw,n ouser 0 1
    /dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
    /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
    /dev/hdd /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

    Now, every time I insert a cd the drive seems to mount automatically. To find out how to describe the media in the first column (i.e. hdc or hdd, or hdb etc.) I looked in the /var/log/syslog file (look for ATAPI in the file, or SATA I guess if you have SATA). I am still having a problem with my ZIP drive though, which, can be found on my desktop an in media devices but doesn't want to work.

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