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 1OkiUS-0006Tv-Tk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:03:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 17A97E076B for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 19:03:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B382CE070D for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:14:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 523C51B4034 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:14:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.414 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.414 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.185, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FXhi95tQQ4z4 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:14:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D761B403C for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:14:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Okhiv-0000Dc-Qw for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:14:22 +0200 Received: from rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com ([71.40.157.251]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:14:21 +0200 Received: from wireless by rrcs-71-40-157-251.se.biz.rr.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:14:21 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: James Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: DVD borked: SysFS removed Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 18:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 71.40.157.251 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100810 Gentoo/2.0.6 SeaMonkey/2.0.6) X-Archives-Salt: 0aaedd02-e80f-47a5-9e9b-34216a3dbb48 X-Archives-Hash: 8ee3893bb2ec18f5cedf07d75e5aa1db Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > Do you have something like /dev/dvd ? Where does it point to? Where > are you expecting it to point to? NO. Should I create it? Symlink to? I looked here at the CD rules for udev, but nothing I try is working. I'm not the keenest hack with udev (understatement). http://reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html#example-cdrom > I think something like /dev/sr0 is often used for optical drives these > days. That's what it is on my system. Please `dmesg | grep sr`. It > would have done you any hard to attache your entire `dmesg` output in > your original posting. # dmesg | grep sr sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 Dmesg: Unfortunately, I use Gmane.org for an interface to this list. Such posts are filter by a myriad of rules...... I can send it privately, if you like? James