I am new to Linux, and have encountered some problems with my CD R/RW drive. When I insert a disk in the drive and mount the disk it locks my machine up. It is my second CD drive. The other is a Read only, I have noticed that if I put a disk in the read only drive that it will not read some of the disks I have burned on my windows machine running XP.
My Linux distribution is Red Hat 8, my CD R/RW is an older Ricoh, not sure of the model number at the moment. I have linux installed on an older machine that I partitioned the drive on as a dual boot system. The other OS is windows ME., which I have been running the Ricoh drive on for some time and have not had any problems with it. Linux is recognizing the drive it is on my "dev" list, but when I mount it everything goes directly into the toilet, the disk spins up and then I am locked. I thought that perhaps this was some artifact from XP that was causing the problem but it still happens with a new blank disk. Linux is recognizing my floppy drive and my zip drive, and both seem to be working properly, the CD ROM drive works as long as I use factory CD's and some of the CD's I have burned on the ME side of the machine.
Again I am very new to Linux and would appreciate any suggestions. I am also having problems with my Yamaha OPL3 SAx sound card, but that will be for another time.
Thanks John Van Gelder Hermiston, OR
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