[Techtalk] DVD drive frustrations

[James]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 22:34:00 -0700, Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com> 
wrote:

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> 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*

Normally, there would be a symlink from /dev/cdrom pointing to /dev/hdc
(or /dev/sr0, or whatever the CD/DVD drive on that particular machine
calls itself). Every distro I've used has done this, AFAIK - although
if you add the drive after installing Linux, of course, it may not
'know' it has to do so..

> 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.

Occam's Razor - it's not just for shaving with...


James.