Missing DVD-RW Drive

Tony Dietrich td at transoft.demon.co.uk
Tue Dec 28 17:31:51 UTC 2004


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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