DVD-CD-RW drive under SuSE 8

Hi, I've recently installed SuSE 8 Pro. I have a Ricoh combined DVD, CD-RW drive. Two icons were put on my desktop: CD-ROM and CD-R. After I've booted the machine I can click on either and it will mount and access a CD in the drive. However clicking on the other causes an error message "mount: /dev/cdrecorder in not a valid block device". Obviously I've unmounted the other one at this stage. :-)) This condition seems to be "sticky" and doesn't change: whichever I've arbitrarily selected to use first is the one I have to continue using no matter how many CD changes are done. Is that what is expected? I don't see any reason for having two icons (and two entries in fstab), but I'm interested to know why it's like this. David.