Cannot find DVD drive

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Sat Sep 20 01:38:19 UTC 2008


Timothy Murphy 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)
> --------------------------
> 
> And I see it referenced in /proc/sys/dev/cdrom ,
> from which I guess I should find it at /dev/cdrom .
> But when I try to mount it, I don't see the CD in it:
> --------------------------
> [root at alfred ~]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> mount: No medium found
> --------------------------
> 
> So is this the correct device?
> How can I tell?
> 
Do you have more then one CD/DVD drive? You can see what device
/dev/cdrom is a symlink for by running "ls -l /dev/cdrom". If you
only have one drive, you may have to clean the drive...

Mikkel
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for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!

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