Missing DVD-RW Drive

[Rick Stevens]

Scott Talbot wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:36 +0200, Henry F Fourie wrote:
> 
>>I'm still a bit new to all of this...
>>
>>Tried creating the link, but get "ln: `/dev/hdc': File exists". Form
>>what I can find out, hdc is the DVD drive. I have a BenQ DVD+RW drive.
>>
>>Anything else I can try?!?
>>
>>Excuse the ignorance.
>>
>>Henry
>>
> 
> 
> 	You should have looked at the man page you'll see that:
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME]
>        ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY
>        ln [OPTION]... --target-directory=DIRECTORY TARGET...
> 
> 
> so (as I see it) the command should have been:
> 
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd

Right.  Or, a synopsis that's in simple English

	ln [OPTION] ORIGINAL-NAME NEW-NAME

>>On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 19:31, Tony Dietrich wrote:
>>
>>>On Tuesday 28 Dec 2004 13:21, Henry F Fourie wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I did a standard Fedora Core 2 install. All was working good except my
>>>>sound card. Then used up2date to update my system and downloaded the
>>>>2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp kernal. I installed teh RPM and then rebooted my
>>>>machine. when it came up Kudzu ran and picked up my sound card. After
>>>>logging in as the normal user and as root, the DVD drive is missing. I
>>>>can burn onto disks using K3B, but I cannot find my DVD drive under the
>>>>"Computer" section.
>>>>
>>>>Can anyone shed some light on this for me...
>>>>
>>>>Henry
>>>
>>>You need to create a symbolic link under /dev pointing to the dvd drive.  
>>>Quite probably its also your CDROM drive if you have a dual-purpose drive.
>>>
>>>Assuming your drive is /dev/hda
>>># ln -s /dev/dvd  /dev/hda
>>>
>>>TD
>>
> 


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