Mandrake and my DVD drive

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-11-05 03:34am

Here's the problem: I put in one CD, it reads the contents fine. I take it out, put in a different one, and it reads no files, just blank.

How do I fix that problem?

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-11-05 05:37pm

What version of Mandrake? Did you do a default install or did you customize it before installing?

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2004-11-05 06:38pm

Crayz9000 wrote:What version of Mandrake? Did you do a default install or did you customize it before installing?

version 10.0

I picked the packages myself, if that's what you mean by customizing it.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-11-05 07:07pm

Then that could be a problem. By default Mandrake typically includes all the packages needed for a working system, although they occasionally make some omissions.

It sounds like supermount is not working for your DVD drive. This could be caused if you're using the KDE desktop icons, and mounting/unmounting from the desktop -- a supermount drive should never be unmounted unless it's physically disconnected.

I would recommend, when you have first booted Mandrake, to open a command prompt and type 'ls /mnt/cdrom' when you have a CD in there. Then eject that CD, insert another one, and repeat the earlier command.

If you see the files on the second CD, then supermount is working fine and it's KDE's kludged desktop system at fault. If it's not, then supermount could be broken.