F-18 CDROM problem -

[Ed Greshko]

On 03/16/13 16:42, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
> On 15/03/13 20:00, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:
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>> I installed an "optical drive" in this F-18/64 XFCE computer and it is apparently recognized by several applications however I don't see an icon come up on the desktop when I put a cdrom in the drive. The same disk works as expected in a similar F-18 computer.
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>> When I put the disk in the drive the light flickers for a while and then stops, no icon appears, and it is reluctant to eject.
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>> [bobg at box10 ~]$ ll /dev/sg1
>> crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 1 Mar 16  2013 /dev/sg1
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>> I don't know how to troubleshoot this so any help is appreciated.
>>
>> Bob
>>
> Another indication, I get:
>
> [root at box10 bobg]# mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sg1  /mnt/cdrom
> mount:  /dev/sg1 is not a block device
>
> I suppose the drive could be defective but I would like to know I'm doing everything right before I pursue that path.
>

What does "ls -l /dev | grep cdrom" show?  On all of my the cdrom is /dev/sr0 which is a block device.


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