how to mount a cd-rw/dvd-rom drive

[Scott Berry]

Hi Rick,

I think I have another question now.  Okay the /media directory is not 
showing anything.  I have actually the Fedora 7 test cd which has checked 
out okay on my Sony Windows system.  I am using this as a secondary slave. 
But Gnome does not see it or nor does the dvd get booted when the computer 
is restarted. I do see it in the Bios so that tells me the cables are fine. 
Do you have any suggestions?

Scott
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at internap.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: how to mount a cd-rw/dvd-rom drive


> On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:53 -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
>> How would one automatically mount a combo drive which is both dvd and
>> cd-rw?
>
> If it has CD-R capabilities (-R, +R, -RW, +RW), it'll show up
> as /dev/cdwriter.  If it has DVD-R capabilities (-R, +R, -RW, +RW),
> it'll show up as /dev/dvdwriter.  My DVD+-RW drive shows up as:
>
> /dev/dvd, /dev/dvd-hdd, /dev/dvdrw, /dev/dvdrw-hdd,
> /dev/dvdwriter, /dev/dvdwriter-hdd
>
> However, it _also_ shows up as:
>
> /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom-hdd, /dev/cdrw, /dev/cdrw-hdd,
> /dev/cdwriter, /dev/cdwriter-hdd
>
> so it's obvious my drive can "do it all" (well, it's not a multi-layer
> or blueray drive).
>
> Note, however, that ALL of those names are really just symbolic links
> to the actual device.  In my case, the DVD+-RW drive is the slave
> drive on my second IDE controller, or /dev/hdd (which is what all the
> "-hdd" stuff in the names indicate).  Since all of the /dev/cd* and
> /dev/dvd* names are just symlinks to /dev/hdd, I could use any of them
> or use /dev/hdd directly.  My choice.
>
> Now, as to how it mounts, if you have blank media in the drive it's not
> mountable anyway.  Nautilus (Gnome) or Konqueror (KDE) will probably
> show the blank media so you can drop files on it and have them burned to
> the media if you want, but it's not mounted anywhere.
>
> If it has mountable media in it, udev will most likely automount it
> somewhere in the /media directory.  If there's a volume label on the
> media, the mountpoint will be "/media/volume-label-found-on-the-media".
>
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