Audio CD woes on a Dell Inspiron 1100

[Jeff Vian]

Chris Desjardins wrote:

> Hi, I can't seem to get my computer to play or should I say mount my 
> audio cds. I have created a cdrom icon on my KDE desktop and when I 
> click on it so that it automatically mounts it says..."Could not mount 

Audio CDs do not mount.

> device. The reported error was: mount: only root can mount /dev/cdrom 
> on /mnt/cdrom". So I went to the terminal and switched to root and 
> tried both mount /mnt/cdrom and mount /dev/cdrom and it said, 
> respectively "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device". Anyone have 
> any ideas? I was able to get my audio CDs to work when I initally 
> installed Fedora then I started messing around with trying to get my 
> cd burner to work and now I can't play audio cds.

Usually the cd burner is actually /dev/scd0 ..   /dev/cdrom is a link to 
that.
If you installed the burner after having a regular cdrom in the machine 
/dev/cdrom may be a link to /dev/hdX and thus won't work to mount/play 
audio.

Check that out.