On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 19:24 +0100, Alan Bartlett wrote:
2008/4/29 Lanny Marcus lannyma@gmail.com: [root@dell1602 ~]# grep ^hdc /var/log/dmesg hdc: DV-516D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 50X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(100) [root@dell1602 ~]#
Good(-ish). The optical device is there but it's an old combo CD/DVD-ROM drive.
>Then looked at the symbolic links? ls -l /dev/ | grep hdc [root@dell1602 ~]# ls -l /dev/ | grep hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 cdrom-hdc -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 dvd -> hdc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 29 12:30 dvd-hdc -> hdc brw------- 1 lanny disk 22, 0 Apr 29 12:30 hdc [root@dell1602 ~]#
When I do that, I get nothing. But, this is promising (BTW, my prev ide-cd thingy was left over from another CentOS box. It's not effective on this one.).
]# ls -l /dev|grep -i "dvd|cd" lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 cdrom -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 cdrom-hda -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 cdrw -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 cdrw-hda -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 cdwriter -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 cdwriter-hda -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 dvd -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 dvd-hda -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 dvdrw -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 dvdrw-hda -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 dvdwriter -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Apr 26 17:52 dvdwriter-hda -> hda
And
# ls -Ll /dev|grep -i "dvd|cd" brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 cdrom brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 cdrom-hda brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 cdrw brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 cdrw-hda brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 cdwriter brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 cdwriter-hda brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 dvd brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 dvd-hda brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 dvdrw brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 dvdrw-hda brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 dvdwriter brw------- 1 wild-bill disk 3, 0 Apr 26 17:52 dvdwriter-hda
I popped a CentOS DVD in, got one image on the desktop and one mount listed from the mount command and one nautilus box popped up..
I removed that and inserted a Mark Knopfler DVD and totem automatically popped up to do it's usual bitch about plugins.
Mount showed one on /media/SHANGRILA and desktop had one ICON for it.
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My best guess (admittedly, in blissful ignorance) is there is some configuration problem on that unit.
HTH