CD/DVD drive not recognized.

[Simon Slater]

On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 12:27 -0400, Jacques B. wrote:
> > He is using F7, so it will be /dev/scd? - probably /dev/scd0
> > Remember, in F7, all IDE drives are handled as SCSI drives. Hard
> > drives are sda, sdb, sdc, etc, regardless of where they sit on the
> > chain. (Except that the chain is scanned in the normal order.)
> > CD/DVD drives are scd0, scd1, etc. Tape drives are st0, st1, etc.
> >
> > > If it's an external USB/firewire drive then it will be /dev/sd?.
> > >
> > Again, it will be /dev/scd? and not /dev/sd? The SCSI drivers name
> > devices depending on what type of device they are.
> >
> > Mikkel
> > --
> >
> Thanks for that clarification Mikkel.  I haven't yet jumped to F7 so
> was not aware of that.  Using FC6 on one of my machines at work, and
> this home machine dual boots to FC5.  I see I best get going with F7
> to learn of these changes (although 8 isn't far away so may just wait
> a few more months and jump right to F8 - I've been doing fresh
> installs when upgrading so not an issue).  Is this only F7 doing this
> now or other distros as well?
> 
> Jacques B.
> 
Sorry for not giving enough specifics.  The drive is a built in
multi-recorder (CD-RW, DVD-RW).  The devices /dev/sd1-6 are the hard
drive partitions, with also a /dev/sda.

There is another block device /dev/sdb.  However, in CD Player for
example the box in preferences to select the device is greyed out.
Sound juicer "... could not find any CD-ROM drives to read.".  Totem has
eject and play/pause greyed out when a DVD is in the drive and the open
dialogue has no option to point to /dev/sdb.

There are 2 character devices /dev/sg0-1 as well.

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Regards
Simon