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From: Florian Philipp <lists@binarywings.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 11:27:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DA80F99.8040506@binarywings.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110415091428.GA1061@muc.de>

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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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  reply	other threads:[~2011-04-15  9:29 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 [this message]
2011-04-15 10:32   ` Alan Mackenzie
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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