Cannot find DVD drive

[Aldo Foot]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at eircom.net> wrote:
> I'm afraid this may be a very ignorant question,
> but how do I access the DVD drive on my desktop?
>
> It is shown by lshal:
> --------------------------
> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B'
>  block.storage_device
> = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B'  (string)
>  info.product = 'DVD-ROM DRD-841B'  (string)
>  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B'
> (string)

When I do lshal in my F8 box I get this (way down in the output):

udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_SD_R1312'
access_control.file = '/dev/sr0'  (string)
block.device = '/dev/sr0'  (string)
linux.device_file = '/dev/sg0'  (string)

I'm just curious: do you get any of that?

~af