[TriLUG] /dev/cdrom

Ryan Leathers ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com
Fri Jul 18 13:20:06 EDT 2003


Thanks Jeremy.  I didn't realize that. I'll go ahead and ln -s this...
hope thats what you meant.


On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:11, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> /dev/cdrom is always a symlink, to something like /dev/hdb for the
> actual device, as you suspected.
> 
> Try something like 'dmesg | grep hd' -- is the CD-ROM detected at all
> during the kernel boot ?  (You may also try 'dmesg|grep sd' in case
> you're using IDE-SCSI.)
> 
> Also, do you have evidence that this CD-ROM works at all on the laptop? 
> I have problems with mine from time to time; probably hardware related.
> 
> --Jeremy
> 
> On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 13:04, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> > On a laptop install of RH9 I am looking at there is no /dev/cdrom
> > Editing fstab yields nothing since there is no device.
> > I have tried to MAKEDEV cdrom but nothing seems to happen.
> > Linking hdb to cdrom gets me nowhere.
> > Any ideas?
-- 
Ryan Leathers <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com>
Global Knowledge
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