Missing DVD-RW Drive

Henry F Fourie henry at althalus.co.za
Tue Dec 28 19:36:20 UTC 2004


I'm still a bit new to all of this...

Tried creating the link, but get "ln: `/dev/hdc': File exists". Form
what I can find out, hdc is the DVD drive. I have a BenQ DVD+RW drive.

Anything else I can try?!?

Excuse the ignorance.

Henry

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 19:31, Tony Dietrich wrote:
> 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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