The symlinks are generated at boot time by udev afaik. A fresh boot should have regenerated them. I've added drives to my Ubuntu boxen with them populated as /dev/dvd and /dev/dvdrw properly.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">William Munson</b> <<a href="mailto:william_munson@bellsouth.net">william_munson@bellsouth.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Brian Wood wrote:<br>> William Munson wrote:<br>><br>>> Jeff Campbell wrote:<br>>><br>>>> Thanks Mario,<br>>>><br>>>> The dev directory contains several items /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom1,
<br>>>> /dev/cdrw1, /dev/dvd, and I think /dev/dvd1. So figuring out which one<br>>>> to use is confusing because both the cdrom drive and dvd drive are not<br>>>> being recognized.<br>>>> I have found some information that I might need to make changes to
<br>>>> the ?etc/fstab file and then I have seen some postings saying you need<br>>>> to unhide the drive in the ?media directory. What are your thoughts?<br>>>><br>>>> thanks again,<br>
>>><br>>>> Jeff<br>>>><br>>> Here is a way to find out what your dvd is mapped to. Use the eject<br>>> command. eject with no command line options will open the drive door on<br>>> your default drive. If that works, then use eject -d to print the
<br>>> default device and you will know what its mapped to. If the plain eject<br>>> command does not work then use eject <device> to figure out which one<br>>> work. There are several other options that will help if you are still stuck.
<br>>><br>>> PS - If you are still having problems, post what version of linux you<br>>> are running so we can point you to release specific info.<br>>><br>><br>> Why not just try:<br>><br>
> ls -l /dev/dvd*<br>><br>> Should tell you what's going on with your DVD drives, even multiple ones.<br>><br>> BEWW<br>> _______________________________________________<br>><br>><br><br>In my case I added a dvd drive after install so none of my symlinks
<br>pointed to the correct device which for some reason was mapped to<br>/dev/cdrom1. (Maybe because the old drive was cdrom0 even though I<br>removed it during the upgrade.) In my case your command would not return<br>the correct info but eject with the actual device name did the trick.
<br>After that I re-linked the standard defines to my device.<br><br>Bill<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>mythtv-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:mythtv-users@mythtv.org">mythtv-users@mythtv.org
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