Mandrake 8.1 Linux and CDROM

[davism]

All,

I'm new to Linux and I have Mandrake 8.1. I'm having a few issues and can't figure this out...It maybe just 'newbie stupidity'...

I'm trying to use the CDPLAYER under GNOME or KDE and it tells me that the CDROM is not mounted.

I have 2 CD's on the system. 1 a CD-R and the other a CDRW. If I do a DMESG | LESS (saw a reference to that in research that I was doing to help with this prob) it shows the devices under /dev/hdb and /dev/hdc.

I do a:
mount -t auto /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom

The /mnt/cdrom directory does exist.

Now, I'm not sure if that is right or wrong but if I put a music CD in the drive - how do I look at the content of that CD? If it's a music CD shouldn't it atleast give me ".CDA" files?

I'm trying to look at the contents of the CD by putting the CD in the drive and then doing a

ls -l /mnt/cdrom

What am I doing wrong?

Any assistance would greatly be appreciated.

Thanks.

 

[phpdude]

Use Mandrake 9.1

 

[davism]

I understand that where is a new version of Mandrake but why would a version be so different as to not allow a previous version to do rudimentary functions such as reviewing the CD contents?

What does it have fundamentaly that is differene than 8.1?

 

[phpdude]

Check the Mandrake Updater it might be a error to do with the drivers for your CD-Rom.