On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:00 AM, Roger Wells<ROGER.K.WELLS at saic.com> wrote: > > MHR wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 3:03 PM, MHR<mhullrich at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I may have asked about this before, but I can't find any records of so <snip - highly recommended for long posts...> >>> > The same thing happened here except that the USB drives work fine but > the CDROM/DVD player/recorder does not mount. > It certainly worked as expected just a week or two ago. > > uname -a: > Linux rwells-rh 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5.centos.plus #1 SMP Thu Apr 2 12:53:36 > EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > now there seems to be no way to recognize the drive so that something > can get burned to it. > Have you verified its presence via lsusb? If it's there, can you mount it manually? I hesitate to ask, but is rebooting an option? HTH mhr