From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:32:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110415103248.GB1061@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DA80F99.8040506@binarywings.net>
Hi, Florian.
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:27:53AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 15.04.2011 11:14, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> > Hi, gentoo.
> > I want to mount a CD rom in my SATA DVD drive. Having inserted the
> > CD into the drive, I can't find an entry in /dev for it. I know the
> > drive and the CD are working, because I installed my system using
> > them. :-)
> > My HDDs are on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. When I stick a USB stick in,
> > it it becomes /dev/sdc. However, my DVD drive is not /dev/sdc, it's
> > not /dev/sdd.
> > I've tried 'ls -lrt /dev', yet there's not entry there after boot
> > time.
> > Would somebody please help me to mount this CD.
> > Thanks!
> It usually is /dev/sr0. There might also be symlinks like /dev/cdrom
> and /dev/dvd but that depends on udev.
/dev/sr0 it is! I suppose that's mnemonic for Sata cdRom zero. ;-( The
symlinks are there, too.
> Hope this helps,
Very much so. Thanks!
> Florian Philipp
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-15 10:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-15 9:14 [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive? Alan Mackenzie
2011-04-15 9:27 ` Florian Philipp
2011-04-15 10:32 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2011-04-15 14:57 ` Mike Gilbert
[not found] <gHNcm-6Ik-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-04-15 14:34 ` Indi
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