CD/DVD drive not recognized.

[Nigel Henry]

On Sunday 07 October 2007 16:47, Karl Larsen wrote:
> Simon Slater wrote:
> >  I have an Acer Extensa 5220 with a Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P CD/DVD drive.
> > After installing Fedora 7 this drive is not found by any application.
> > Will it be one of the /dev/sda devices?  I'm not sure where to start
> > with this one, googling didn't come up with anything useful.
>
>     I am confused. How did you install F7? Did you do it without using
> this drive?
>
> In anycase a DVD drive should show up on /dev/ somewhere.

>  Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI

Looking on my Fedora 7 install, and opening VLC. I see that I have the device 
name set as /dev/scd0.

My optical drive is one of those cdrom/cdwriter/dvdrom drives, and often you 
find that apps are pointing to the wrong device in /dev, particularly if you 
have more than one optical drive, as I have on the other machine.

Nigel.