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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive?
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 10:16:55
Message-Id: 20110415103248.GB1061@muc.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive? by Florian Philipp
1 Hi, Florian.
2
3 On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:27:53AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
4 > Am 15.04.2011 11:14, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
5 > > Hi, gentoo.
6
7 > > I want to mount a CD rom in my SATA DVD drive. Having inserted the
8 > > CD into the drive, I can't find an entry in /dev for it. I know the
9 > > drive and the CD are working, because I installed my system using
10 > > them. :-)
11
12 > > My HDDs are on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb. When I stick a USB stick in,
13 > > it it becomes /dev/sdc. However, my DVD drive is not /dev/sdc, it's
14 > > not /dev/sdd.
15
16 > > I've tried 'ls -lrt /dev', yet there's not entry there after boot
17 > > time.
18
19 > > Would somebody please help me to mount this CD.
20
21 > > Thanks!
22
23
24 > It usually is /dev/sr0. There might also be symlinks like /dev/cdrom
25 > and /dev/dvd but that depends on udev.
26
27 /dev/sr0 it is! I suppose that's mnemonic for Sata cdRom zero. ;-( The
28 symlinks are there, too.
29
30 > Hope this helps,
31
32 Very much so. Thanks!
33
34 > Florian Philipp
35
36 --
37 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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Re: [gentoo-user] What's the /dev/* entry for my DVD drive? Mike Gilbert <floppymaster@×××××.com>