OpneSUSE 11.1 cant mount cd-rw/dvd-rw

[nihil]

Hi there lion~,

Perhaps you just have a simple hardware failure? I have seen numerous cases of hardware components being recognised by the system but they just won't work.

I would normally connect them to another machine to confirm that they were dead, but in this case I would suggest going into the BIOS and making the CD/DVD the first boot option.

Insert another distros boot CD and reboot. If it works then you know your hardware is basically OK. You can even do this with an old Windows CD or a bootable applications CD.

If it won't boot then the only other thing I think you might try is flashing the CD/DVDs firmware.

From a research viewpoint try Googling for the make and model of CD/DVD and searching in the results for Open Suse. It just might be some sort of hardware compatibility issue?

The media check error is a little misleading I suspect. It is looking to check the media but cannot actually see the drive......so it cannot see the media in it or detect that there isn't any. I guess it gives you the closest error message it can find?