dvd drive under FC1

[Elton Woo]

Boon Wee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed a fresh FC1. The question I have is that my dvdrw 
> drive is recognised as /dev/cdrom0 in my /etc/fstab and there is no 
> /dev/dvd. I have another cdrw drive recognised as /dev/cdrom1.
>
> What should I do to make the system recognise a dvd drive? 

IMHO, you don't need to do anything special.
A month ago, my neighbour lent me his new DVD drive
[PLEXTOR DVD-WRITER PX-708A/SW]. I simply installed in
in place of my CDRW (/dev/hdc) [TEAC CD-W516EB].
I was able to burn, erase, and play DVD/ DVD-RW discs using
the new drive, using K3b.

FWIW, my Secondary Slave (/dev/hdd) [PIONEER DVD 116/2/KBXCN]
could be used to play DVD movies, while I was burning DVD R/ RW discs
in the Plextor drive. My machine is an Athlon 1.0 Gb, with an nVidia
(32Mb) video card, and 512 Mb system memory.

This is with Fedora Core 1 ("Yarrow") and the 2.4 kernel. I surmise that
with the 2.6 kernel (which I am yet to install), performance would be
even faster.

HTH & cheers,

Elton Woo ;-)

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