howto mount a second cdrom (Bruce Marshall)

[Raymundo M. Vega]

On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 07:02 -0600, Tim M wrote:
> On 12/2/07, Doug Schrock <dschrock at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > > On Sunday 02 December 2007, Tim M wrote:> > I am embarrassed to say that
> > I cannot figure out how to mount and use> > the second cdrom (actually a
> > dvdrom) I have installed in my small test> > server. I have read a articles
> > on the subject but they never seemed to> > address the problem I am having.
> > The new drive shows up in the BIOS> > but I am not sure how to find it using
> > command lines. I even installed> > a lightweight windows manager iceWM in
> > hopes that some visual clues> > might help me . . . Anyway, what are the
> > commands I need to run to> > find the dvdrom and mount it?> >> > Thanks in
> > advance, Tim> > Do the following to find out the names of your two devices:>
> > > ls -la /dev/cd*> > ls -la /dev/dvd*> > I think that will give you the clue
> > >
> >
> > Tim,
> >
> > I have the same problem, except with 2 nearly identical cdrws (TDK 52x and a
> > TDK 48x drive)
> > When I tried the above, a get "no such file ordirectory".  I have edited my
> > etc/fstab file to show hdc cdrom0 and hdd to be cdrom1.
> > Both show up as working in the System Bios.
> > I originally installed the feisty i386 lamp server edition, but then
> > installed the gnome destktop.  The second cdrw worked briefly.
> > Any help would be grealy appreciated.
> >
> > Doug
> >
> 
> Doug,
> 
> I would love to be able to help you but I am not very good with
> command lines which is one of the reasons I installed the server. I
> think if you go back and follow the commands listed in the second post
> on this thread you should be able to find the cdrom. Then you can edit
> /etc/fstab as shown in the third and forth post. Be sure to change the
> name of your device to whatever the first command shows. In my case it
> was /dev/hdd and after making the change to fstab remember to remount.
> 
> Tim
> 

Have you tried to find if they are detected at boot time?
try something like: dmesg | grep -i tdk

raymundo