Thanks. I tried  
 
 rm -rf /dev/dvd
 
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
 
 
... but am not having success in mounting dvd and dmesg is giving me
the output below  
which I can't interpret. Can someone tell me what  
 
'DriveReady SeekComplete Error' means ? 
 
Adam Bogacki, 
afb@paradise.net.nz 
 
Tux:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd 
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only 
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, 
       or too many mounted file systems 
 
This error message is new. Mounting a Pioneer dvd player - which plays
CD's -  
and *also* mounting a CDRW should not be a problem (allowing me
to use cdrecord). 
 
Tux:~# dmesg 
 
<snip> 
hdc: ATAPI DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33) 
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 
hdd: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, DMA 
SCSI subsystem initialized 
Linux Kernel Card Services 
  options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm] 
input: ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse on isa0060/serio1 
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 
hdc: command error: error=0x50 
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 
hdc: command error: error=0x50 
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 
isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=hdc, iso_blknum=16, block=16 
udf: registering filesystem 
UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/lowlevel.c:57:udf_get_last_session: XA disk: no,
vol_desc_s tart=0 
UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/super.c:1546:udf_fill_super: Multi-session=0 
UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/super.c:534:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048
byte secto rs) 
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 
hdc: command error: error=0x50 
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 64 
UDF-fs DEBUG fs/udf/super.c:1282:udf_check_valid: Failed to read byte
32768. As suming open disc. Skipping validity check 
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 
hdc: command error: error=0x50 
end_request: I/O error, dev hdc, sector 1280796 
hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } 
 
 
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