Then that certainly sounds like a configuration problem with both of the 
new distros you installed. My bad.

When you attempted to change permissions on /mnt/cdrom1, was the drive 
mounted at the time? That, I think, would be the likely cause of 
blocking the permission change when you attempted it as root.

Lee

Siri Amrit Kaur wrote:

>On Thursday 24 March 2005 04:14 pm, Lee Einer wrote:
>  
>
>>When you used to use it, was it on the same cable with another CD-ROM
>>drive? is it jumpered as master or slave, and is the device on /dev/hdc
>>jumpered as master or slave?
>>
>>    
>>
>It shares a cable with my CDRW. The CDRW is /hdc (master) and the problematic 
>CDROM is /hdd (slave). I haven't moved the drive, changed jumpers cables or 
>made any changes with that setup for two years. All I did was install Kanotix 
>and Vector. It worked for Slackware 10.0. I installed Slackware 10.1, didn't 
>like it so wiped it out and installed Kanotix (Debian-based) and Vector 
>(Slackware-based). 
>
>Siri Amrit
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