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Master of Reality:
I have a 12X DVD drive that came with my computer, it has a CD with drivers for Windows on them but i have no idea what type of DVD ROM it is. Is there any generic DVD drivers or something that might work?
It says something about a Cyberlink Power DVD on the CD that has the drivers for it.

[ April 23, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

Master of Reality:
nobody knows anything about DVDs?

Scotty:
I assume that you have installed some linux distro so there should be a link for your player in /dev folder like scd0 or cdrom(x) somesort. Find out if that's the case. If you have installed you system with "pnp os" option disabled in bios settings most distros should be able to find all ide/scsi devices.

if your player (xine for example) won't find /dev/dvd or what-so-ever, make a symlink called dvd that points to your cd/dvd device.

hope that helps..  :D

Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by SingleMalt:
I assume that you have installed some linux distro so there should be a link for your player in /dev folder like scd0 or cdrom(x) somesort. Find out if that's the case. If you have installed you system with "pnp os" option disabled in bios settings most distros should be able to find all ide/scsi devices.

if your player (xine for example) won't find /dev/dvd or what-so-ever, make a symlink called dvd that points to your cd/dvd device.

hope that helps..   :D  
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there is 2 links on my desktop that point(mount) either of my CD-ROMs but neither work, because i just installed a DVD player as the master and my CD-RW as a slave, and it doesnt find the DVD.

Calum:
so what you want to do is mount the DVD drive?
in that case you need to edit your /etc/fstab file to make sure your system knows firstly where the DVD drive is (in /dev/something) and secondly where you want it mounted. Actually you don't need to do that, but it'll save you typing it all in every time you want to mount the drive. Once you have put it into yr /etc/fstab, you can just type "mount /whereveritis/dvdrom", and linux will look in fstab to find out the other details.

if all your other drives are set to mount to /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom et cetera, you will probably want to make the dvd drive go to /mnt/dvdrom for clarity's sake. (i prefer my drives to be /floppy and /dvdrom et cetera) now you will need to mkdir /mnt/dvdrom and then edit your /etc/fstab accordingly. Now, first of course, you will have to find out what your dvdrom is called in /dev

hope that is a start, maybe somebody else can give you more specific info...

[ April 25, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]

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