Re: [CentOS] Issue with dvd/cdrom drive

On Sun, 2019-06-23 at 22:13 -0400, doug schmidt wrote:

Hi, I'm having an issue with my Thinkpad P70 laptop/workstation. This system is a dual boot, windows 10 pro and centos 7. I have not needed to use the cdrom until now, however the system does not see it in /dev. I know the cdrom works as I can use it in windows 10 and when initially installing centos 7, I installed from dvd media. I'm not sure what to check.

By default CDROM drives are usually /dev/sr*

# hwinfo --block --short

CD drives are not block devices. Why not use 'hwinfo --cdrom'?

# hwinfo --cdrom --short cdrom: /dev/sr0 TSSTcorp DVD+-RW TS-H653H

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