Please help me understand what's happening! I'm going to break this message into two parts: first - what is happening; second - errors and info from logs. I'm running KDE on 8.1 **************** I have 2 physical hardware devices: a CD-RW and a DVD player On my desktop I have 3 icons. The first two (#1 & #2) appeared after initial configuration, and I renamed icon, device file, and mount point, then edited fstab to match. The third (#3), I created from right-click on desktop > Create New... > CD/DVD-ROM device, then named and chose the device file, to see if I could recreate one of the other icons on my own. These icons are: ICON DEVICE FILE MOUNT #1) CD-Player /dev/cdplayer > sr0 /media/cdplayer #2) CDROM /dev/cdrom > sr1 /media/cdrom #3) /dev/cdplayer /dev/cdplayer > sr0 /media/cdplayer #1 - PLAYS an "audioCD" from CD-RW using the application kscd (an audioCD player) WILL NOT read/play an "audioCD" from DVD (starts kscd) READS a "dvd" from DVD using konquerer (a web browser/file manager) READS a "dvd" from CD-RW using kscd (obviously will not play, yet shows directories as tracks) READS a "dataCD" from DVD using konquerer (attempts to mount for 2 minutes) READS a "dataCD" from CD-RW using kscd (obviously will not play, yet shows directories as tracks) WILL NOT read a "blank CD" from CD-RW (attempts to mount, starts kscd, then crashes kscd) WILL NOT read a "blank CD" from DVD (attempts to mount for 2 minutes, then starts kscd) #2 - READS??? (opens application) an "audioCD" from either hardware device using the application k3b (a CD burner) READS??? (opens application) a "dvd" from either hardware device using k3b READS a "dataCD" from CD-RW using konquerer READS??? (opens application) a "dataCD" from DVD using k3b READS??? (opens application) a "blank CD" from either hardware device using k3b #3 - WILL NOT read/play "audioCD" from CD-RW (attempts to mount, then reports mount error: No medium found) WILL NOT read/play "audioCD" from DVD (reports error: Could not mount device. The reported error was: /dev/cdplayer: Input/output error, mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified) READS a "dvd"from DVD using konquerer WILL NOT read "dvd" from CD-RW (attempts to mount, then reports mount error: No medium found) READS "dataCD" from DVD using konquerer WILL NOT read "dataCD" from CD-RW (attempts to mount, then reports mount error: No medium found) WILL NOT read "blank CD" from DVD (attempts to mount for 2 minutes, then reports mount error: No medium found) WILL NOT read "blank CD" from CD-RW (attempts to mount, then reports mount error: No medium found) KsCD works the same way (above) no matter what device file I select in its' configuration. In /home/~/Desktop, the icons show the following file type: #1) CD-Player.desktop Mount and browse a DVD-ROM #2) CDROM.desktop Mount and browse a CD-R #3) /dev/cdplayer.desktop Desktop config file In KDE Available Hardware, there is one instance of my DVD device and three instances of my CD-RW device, all showing either not available or needs configuration. When attempting to configure any of these, Yast opens showing detected CD/DVD hardware with two instances of my CD-RW device. After configuring these two detected devices, the same results occur in testing. During boot, my CD-RW mounts at /dev/hdd, and my DVD mounts at /dev/hdc. What SHOULD be available: DVD hardware device should be able to: read/play "audioCD" read/play "dvd" (the MPlayer application is not yet configured, so I couldn't test it) read "dataCD" read "blank dataCD" CD-RW hardware device should be able to: read/play "audioCD" read "dvd" read "dataCD" read/write "blank CD" as new "audioCD" or new "dataCD" (did not test K3b) **************** Info from logs: Contents of boot.msg and boot.omsg: ... <4>Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda6 hdd=ide-scsi vga=791 <4>ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi ... <6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 <4>ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx <4>VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev a1 <4>VP_IDE: chipset revision 16 <4>VP_IDE: not 100%% native mode: will probe irqs later <6>VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a (rev 22) IDE UDMA66 controller on pci00:14.1 <4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x14c0-0x14c7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio <4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x14c8-0x14cf, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA <4>hda: Maxtor 98196H8, ATA DISK drive <4>hdc: COMPAQ DVD-ROM SD-612B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>hdd: LG CD-RW CED-8083B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ... <6>SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 <3>kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 ... <4>hdc: no flushcache support <4>hdd: no flushcache support <6>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices <4> Vendor: COMPAQ Model: DVD-ROM SD-612B Rev: BL16 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 <4> Vendor: LG Model: CD-RW CED-8083B Rev: 1.10 <4> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 ... &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Content of /var/log/warn ... Mar 14 08:48:35 linux kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Mar 14 08:48:35 linux kernel: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Mar 14 08:48:35 linux kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 4x/32x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Mar 14 08:48:35 linux kernel: sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/32x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 64 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 66 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 68 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 70 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 72 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 74 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 76 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdc: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), sector 78 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 66 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 68 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 70 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 72 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 74 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 76 Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: ide-scsi: hdd: unsupported command in request queue (0) Mar 14 08:49:01 linux kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 78 **************** PLEASE HELP!!! Bernd