hi,

I have been a linux user for sometime now but have never changed any hardware before.

I previously had a IDE optical drive. I now have a sata optical drive but unable to mount it (it works fine with other live cds).

This is my /etc/fstab

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/dev/cdrom2 /mnt/disc iso9660 rw,defaults 0 0

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I figured that the drive points to sr0

$ll /dev

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lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-03-04 16:57 cdrom2 -> sr0

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I did this

#sdparm --all /dev/sr0

/dev/sr0: HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH20NS10 EL00 [cd/dvd] mode sense command failed, unit attention

unable to mount the drive the usual way using the mount command

this happens after a disc change.

$dmesg

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sr0: disc change detected. ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 ata3: hard resetting port ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 ata3: hard resetting port ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 ata3: hard resetting port ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 ata3: hard resetting port ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 ata3: hard resetting port ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6 ata3: hard resetting port ata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: configured for UDMA/100 ata3: EH complete ata3.00: exception Emask 0x100 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x6

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Any help would be appreciated.

Thnx

ps. kudzu work fine though