[mythtv-users] Mythbuntu DVD setup for mytharchive use

Jeff Campbell jeff.campbell at jax.org
Sun Aug 5 11:25:30 UTC 2007


Thanks Bill,

 That got me a little further along. Now the system is erroring out with 
a type of media problem. So I tried just playing a dvd with mythdvd and 
that does not work so I think my problem keeps getting  more and more 
confusing. :(

Jeff

William Munson wrote:
> Brian Wood wrote:
>   
>> William Munson wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Jeff Campbell wrote:
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> Thanks Mario,
>>>>
>>>>  The dev directory contains several items /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom1, 
>>>> /dev/cdrw1, /dev/dvd, and I think /dev/dvd1. So figuring out which one 
>>>> to use is confusing because both the cdrom drive and dvd drive are not 
>>>> being recognized.
>>>>  I have found some information that I might need to make changes to 
>>>> the ?etc/fstab file and then I have seen some postings saying you need 
>>>> to unhide the drive in the ?media directory. What are your thoughts?
>>>>
>>>> thanks again,
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> Here is a way to find out what your dvd is mapped to. Use the eject 
>>> command.  eject with no command line options will open the drive door on 
>>> your default drive. If that works, then use eject -d to print the 
>>> default device and you will know what its mapped to. If the plain eject 
>>> command does not work then use eject <device> to figure out which one 
>>> work. There are several other options that will help if you are still stuck.
>>>
>>> PS - If you are still having problems, post what version of linux you 
>>> are running so we can point you to release specific info.
>>>     
>>>       
>> Why not just try:
>>
>> ls -l /dev/dvd*
>>
>> Should tell you what's going on with your DVD drives, even multiple ones.
>>
>> BEWW
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> In my case I added a dvd drive after install so none of my symlinks 
> pointed to the correct device which for some reason was mapped to 
> /dev/cdrom1. (Maybe because the old drive was cdrom0 even though I 
> removed it during the upgrade.) In my case your command would not return 
> the correct info but eject with the actual device name did the trick. 
> After that I re-linked the standard defines to my device.
>
> Bill
>
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