Cannot find DVD drive
Timothy Murphy
gayleard at eircom.net
Sun Sep 21 02:01:38 UTC 2008
Richard England wrote:
>>>> but how do I access the DVD drive on my desktop?
>>>>
>>>> It is shown by lshal:
>>>> --------------------------
>>>> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B'
>>>> block.storage_device
>>>> = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B'
>>>> (string)
>>>> info.product = 'DVD-ROM DRD-841B' (string)
>>>> info.udi =
>>>> '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B'
>>>> (string)
>>>>
>>> When I do lshal in my F8 box I get this (way down in the output):
>>>
>>> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_SD_R1312'
>>> access_control.file = '/dev/sr0' (string)
>>> block.device = '/dev/sr0' (string)
>>> linux.device_file = '/dev/sg0' (string)
>>>
>>> I'm just curious: do you get any of that?
>>>
>>
>> Yes, I do get that:
>> --------------------------
>> udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_model_DVD_ROM_DRD_841B'
>> access_control.file = '/dev/sr0' (string)
>> access_control.grant_local_session = true (bool)
>> block.device = '/dev/sr0' (string)
>> --------------------------
>>
>> I did actually know /dev/cdrom was a link to /dev/sr0,
>> but I get the same result when trying to mount the latter:
>> --------------------------
>> [root at alfred tim]# mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
>> mount: No medium found
>> --------------------------
>>
>> I guess there may be something wrong with the drive.
>> It's rather ancient.
>> I'll try it in another machine.
>>
>>
> I'm coming in late on this, but is there a CD (media) in the drive when
> you try the mount command?
Yes, there was a CD in the drive,
in fact it was the Fedora KDE Live CD,
which I was trying to boot from.
I tried it in another drive in the same machine,
and it did boot from the CD.
So I guess there is something wrong with the drive.
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
More information about the users
mailing list