[Techtalk] DVD drive frustrations

[Carla Schroder]

**please reply to the list, I read the list and don't need duplicates**

On Monday 07 June 2004 9:38 pm, L J Laubenheimer wrote:
> Solved!
> 
> It's even more simple and noxious than I thought: the dvd drive is seen as 
> /dev/hdc, not /dev/cdrom (nor /dev/hdc1, like a normal IDE drive).  A little 
> diddle of fstab, and it reads fine.  It's just a plain IDE device, with no 
> partitionability.... *sigh*
> 

LOL! What a great lesson in looking for the simpler answer! Thanks LJ. And 
here I thought it was going to be gnarly fun kernel kraziness.

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