[Solved] How to get CD/DVD drive working?

I've been trying to get it to work since Day 1, just a few weeks ago. The default settings didn't work, no matter what I tried. I removed all mentions of optical drives from fstab and installed hal, to no avail. I've tried stealing other people's settings, copying my old ones from Ubuntu; pretty much everything I could think of. I've read the "How To fstab" on the Ubuntu forums, and searched Google many times. In the hopes of finally having a functional optical drive, I ask you:
What do I need to do?
Last edited by soupcan (2009-01-19 05:11:55)

Hello everybody! I, too have a problem with my cdrom drive. When I'm trying to mount it I get the error:"special device /dev/cdrom does not exist". I know that usually /dev/cdrom it's a link to a real device, but there is no device in /dev (beside my 2 HDDs). fdisk -l shows me only the HDD partitions. I didn't found any errors in my log files. Actually, Arch it's not seeing my CDROM drive.
Here is my fstab file:
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
UUID=427c31e7-0626-4085-a368-68fa0071fe4f swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=f6e71d3d-5c4a-40ff-b773-6b68d16ec63d / jfs defaults 0 1
LABEL=HOME /home auto defaults 0 0
LABEL=MUNCA /media/Munca auto defaults 0 0
LABEL=VYDEO /media/Vydeo vfat defaults 0 0
LABEL=MUZICAFILME /media/MuzicaFilme vfat defaults 0 0
LABEL=SICA /media/Sica vfat defaults 0 0
Here is an excerpt from my mkinitcpio.conf:
HOOKS="base udev autodetect pata scsi sata usbinput keymap filesystems"
And here is fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x2e832e82
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1094 8787523+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1095 2188 8787555 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 2189 2796 4883760 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 2797 3738 7566615 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2797 3647 6835626 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 3648 3738 730926 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x5072879e
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 992 9729 70187985 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb2 * 1 991 7960176 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb5 992 5738 38130246 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb6 5739 9601 31029516 b W95 FAT32
/dev/sdb7 9602 9729 1028128+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Thank you.

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