Reading CD-RWs in a CD-ROM Drive

From: William Lugg (william.lugg_at_cisf.af.mil)
Date: 01/29/04 

Date: 29 Jan 2004 10:13:31 -0800

I've got a Linux box running the SuSE 9 distro. Today I was looking
to read the contents of a CD-RW in the CD-ROM drive (the Linux box
doesn't have a CD writer), and KDE came back with an error that no
media was found. Is there some software that I need to run to allow
this?

Thanks.
Bill Lugg

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