FC6 not reading DVDs

[alan]

On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Jeff Mutonho wrote:

> My /etc/fstab looks as follows :
> LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> devpts                  /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                   /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> sysfs                   /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> LABEL=SWAP-hdc3         swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>
>
> and /etc/sysconfig/hwconf
>
> class: CDROM
> bus: IDE
> detached: 0
> device: hdb
> desc: "DVD-RW IDE1108"
>
>
> What else can I look for?

If you look in /var/log/messages, do you see any odd messages when you try 
and mount the dvd?

If you try and mount the dvd using a mount command, does it dump odd 
errors to the console or the log?

What does "hdparm /dev/hdb" return?

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