From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QAg59-0008A9-3b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:16:55 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 959F01C039; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:15:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 228981C039 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:15:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 92868 invoked by uid 3782); 15 Apr 2011 10:15:25 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9519744.dip.t-dialin.net [217.81.151.68]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:15:24 +0200 Received: (qmail 2288 invoked by uid 1000); 15 Apr 2011 10:32:48 -0000 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:32:48 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive? Message-ID: <20110415103248.GB1061@muc.de> References: <20110415091428.GA1061@muc.de> <4DA80F99.8040506@binarywings.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4DA80F99.8040506@binarywings.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: a87e40e96c98740790ee04dd80e530d2 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).