Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?

[Indi]

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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[gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?

[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!

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?

[Florian Philipp]

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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.

Hope this helps,
Florian Philipp


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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?

[Alan Mackenzie]

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

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?

[Mike Gilbert]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 6:32 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> /dev/sr0 it is!  I suppose that's mnemonic for Sata cdRom zero.  ;-(  The
> symlinks are there, too.
>

Actually, that would be Scsi cdRom. Your SATA devices are treated like
SCSI devices.