CD/DVD drive not recognized.

[Simon Slater]

On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:24 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote:
> 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.
> 
This is also one of the multi recorder type, but no /dev/scd.  A summary
is posted in reply to Jaques B.  If the whole listing is needed I'll
post it.


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Regards
Simon