[CentOS] dvd rw not recognized

Frank Cox

theatre at sasktel.net
Sat Mar 14 19:19:15 UTC 2009


I installed Centos 5.2 on a brand new computer the other day.  It has an Asus
DVD RW drive in it which I used to boot the netboot disk off of to install the
operating system so it found the dvd at that point.

Now k3b tells me that it can't find any drives.

[nathalie at jeff ~]$ ll /dev/scd0
brw------- 1 nathalie disk 11, 0 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/scd0
[nathalie at jeff ~]$ ll /dev/cdrom*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/cdrom-sr0 -> scd0
[nathalie at jeff ~]$ ll /dev/dvd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvd -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdrw -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdrw-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvd-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdwriter -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Mar 10 14:00 /dev/dvdwriter-sr0 -> scd0

cdrecord --scanbus tells me this:

	1,0,0	100) *
	1,1,0	101) '��������' '����������������' '����' Removable vendor
specific 7 unknown/no device 1,2,0	102) *
	1,3,0	103) *
	1,4,0	104) *
	1,5,0	105) *
	1,6,0	106) *
	1,7,0	107) *

/var/log/messages tells me this:

Mar 10 13:06:22 jeff kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
Mar 10 13:06:22 jeff kernel:   Vendor: ASUS      Model: DRW-20B1ST        Rev: 1
.00
Mar 10 13:06:22 jeff kernel:   Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI S
CSI revision: 05

dmesg tells me this:

sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/12x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 1:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

What am I doing wrong here?


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