No drives listed at "computer:///"
Joachim Selke
selke at thi.uni-hannover.de
Tue Aug 22 13:57:30 UTC 2006
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Ric Moore wrote:
>> when I open the "computer:///"-location in GNOME there should be a list
>> of all my drives (CD drive, floppy, ...). On my system I only see the
>> list entries "filesystem" and "network".
>> [...]
>> I did a fresh install of FC5 and made a complete update via
>> yum.
>
> I think all of your stuff would have worked at first, before you
> upgraded.
Hm, I should have tested that. But at the moment I don't want to because
I would have to reinstall. Maybe I install a development shapshot of FC6
this evening and test whether the same problem occurs there.
Does someone know from where GNOME gets the information for its drive
listing?
> One of the newer kernels or SOMETHING decided that the old
> SATA scheme of dev/scd(x) has been changed to /dev/hd(x) and now all DvD
> player apps complain that they cannot now access nor find the device.
This is not the case here. My drives are identified by /dev/sd*.
/dev/hd* does not work.
Joachim
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