cd player not working

[Douglas Frank]

first, scan thru /var/log/messages, looking for the announcement during 
bootup that your cdrom was found, and note its device name-- it's 
probably something like /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc (unless it's a SCSI device)

then make sure there's a soft link to that device from /dev/cdrom.  If 
not, login as root & create it.  For instance:

        cd /dev
        ln -s hdc cdrom

double check like this:

        file /dev/cdrom

the response should be something like:

        /dev/cdrom: symbolic link to 'hdc'

Langer, Christian wrote:

> The error message I get is "drive error" that is it. Then the cd does
> not spin up or anything like it usually does when you try to open it.

-- 
Douglas Frank
HP Co.
110 Spit Brook Rd.      Blessed are the Bewildered
Nashua, NH 03062 USA           for they won't notice