Steve Campbell spake the following on 3/1/2007 7:56 AM:
I'm running CentOS 3 and have just installed a Liteon lightscribe DVD/CD unit. I firstly realized I didn't know exactly how to mount it, as /dev/dvd didn't exist, I didn't want to generate anything if it already existed, and I didn't want to mess up my cdrom unit that works just fine.
I mounted the device though the X window just to see how it might mount, and find that it mounts /dev/cdrom1 on /mnt/cdrom1, regardless of what type media is in the drive. Does this sound proper? Should I mknod(?) something for the /dev/dvd device and if so, what should be the parms?
I then tried to find a movie viewer on the machine, and only found mplayer. I couldn't get it to work properly due to the configuration options (not a very powerful machine). What does anyone use for a DVD viewer?
And lastly, what are recommendations for implementing the lightscribe functions that exist on the drive?
Any help is very graciously appreciated.
Steve Campbell campbell@cnpapers.com Charleston Newspapers
/dev/cdrom(1) seems to be standard, but look at the dvd howto for help ( http://tldp.org/HOWTO/html_single/DVD-Playback-HOWTO/ ). I am not sure if CentOS will have any DVD playing capability without an outside repo (licensing issues from RedHat). Look at http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/redhat-fedora-linux-help/63953-how-play-dvd...
As for the Lightscribe, http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10803