I installed antiX on an old laptop- Dell Inspiron 7000. It's really nice, however, I just realized my cd-rom and floppy don't work. When I click on floppy in pcmanfm, I get error"unable to mount device". Any help would be appreciated. Could I be missing drivers?

Open a terminal and type and paste the output into a reply. We should be able to see what is wrong.

try the solution in this post:

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Actually, I did get my floppy drive to work. I still don't think I can play an audio CD. Here is what I got from the terminal code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 02)
00:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02)
00:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1220 (rev 02)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
00:08.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology ES1968 Maestro 2
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT Pro AGP-133 (rev dc)

for music cd, don't mount it from a file manager, simply open it from xmms

No luck with that, either. Any kind of cd that I put in the drive, it makes a whirring noise for about 15 seconds. Then the machine locks up. I have to power down to remove the cd.

Try enabling sound through aumix-it has worked for a couple of us.EDIT-sorry-I missed the cd-rom not working properly.