Need help installing DVDR drive. BIOS sees it, but Fedora won't detect it.

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

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> Hi,
> I have NEC ND-2500 DVD-/+R. I had regular DVD drive before and I removed 
> it and replaced it with this new drive. Unfortunately I can't even watch 
> any DVDs with it or reord any DVDRs.
> /mnt/cdrom is there and does show audio/video folders, but MPlayer can't 
> access /dev/dvd
> 
> Any help would be appreciated!

Create a symlink:

# ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd

Or change MPlayer preferences to use /dev/cdrom instead of /dev/dvd.