how to mount a cd-rw/dvd-rom drive

[Scott Berry]

The meaning of the secondary slave is that it is on the second ide chain.


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From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: how to mount a cd-rw/dvd-rom drive


> Scott Berry wrote:
>
>> I think I have another question now.  Okay the /media directory is not
>> showing anything.  I have actually the Fedora 7 test cd which has
>> checked out okay on my Sony Windows system.  I am using this as a
>> secondary slave.
>
> What is the meaning of "secondary slave"?
>
>> But Gnome does not see it or nor does the dvd get
>> booted when the computer is restarted. I do see it in the Bios so that
>> tells me the cables are fine. Do you have any suggestions?
>
> Become root and look in your /var/log/dmesg file and find the lines where
> the drive is detected on boot.  It will probably look something like:
>
> Probing IDE interface ide0...
> hda: SONY DVD RW DRU-830A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>
> Then, just for a test, type...(note hda is an example since that it what 
> is
> on my system)
>
> mount /dev/hda /dev/mnt
>
> What are the results?
>
>> Scott
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