problems w/drives and fc6 (still)

[John]

John wrote:
> Tim wrote:
>> On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 21:43 -0500, John wrote:
>>  
>>>   I've been messing around, trying to get the floppy and cd burner 
>>> to work/appear, with little success. I've noticed in the dev folder, 
>>> the icons for the floppy and burner have that green backwards arrow. 
>>> What's up with that crap?
>>>     
>>
>> Dunno what you're using to view that folder, but if you use the command
>> line, you can see something like this:
>>
>> $ ll /dev/cd*
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Mar 14 14:03 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
>> lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Mar 14 14:03 /dev/cdwriter -> hdc
>>
>> It indicates that the cdrom device is a link to the hdc device.
>>
>> Whilst some things can make use of your CD-ROM just as long as they can
>> find it, somewhere.  Other things will only treat it like one if the
>> device name fits a certain pattern (e.g. has cdrom or dvdrom in it).
>>
>>   
>  I go Computer (desktop icon) / Filesystem / dev (folder) and the cd 
> drive items (icons?) are there- not in a folder or anything. There's 
> similar icons for the floppy drive, but they're in a folder (in dev) 
> named fd0. I got thinking last night- would something like this work: 
> if I pulled the power cables for the two drives and booted the box, so 
> FC could register them not being there... I could shut down the box, 
> plug the drives back in and boot the box up again. I was thinking FC 
> -should- see the two drives as new hardware?
>  Its strange- I run hwbrowser, which sees the two drives, but 
> hwbroswer says there's no drivers- unlike the other hardware. When I 
> click/start the cd player in Apps/Sound and Video, it says that's its 
> unable to run correctly. Clciking on details show that cd player is 
> /dev/scd0... I try to 'set the device' and that option is greyed out. 
> Last night I thought SELinux had something to do with it, but I 
> couldn't find anything that would disable the drives.
>
>                       John
>
  Strange thing; cd's work with KsCD...