From: Indi <thebeelzebubtrigger@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:34:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110415143433.GA7128@gaurahari> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gHNcm-6Ik-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:10:02AM +0200, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> 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!
>
> --
> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Probably it's /dev/sr0, but you can find out for sure by looking in
/dev.
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^ caveat utilitor
'v-v'
next parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-15 14:36 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <gHNcm-6Ik-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2011-04-15 14:34 ` Indi [this message]
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
2011-04-15 14:57 ` Mike Gilbert
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