Hi, Florian.

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:27:53AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 15.04.2011 11:14, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> > Hi, gentoo.

> > I want to mount a CD rom in my SATA DVD drive.  Having inserted the
> > CD into the drive, I can't find an entry in /dev for it.  I know the
> > drive and the CD are working, because I installed my system using
> > them.  :-)

> > My HDDs are on /dev/sda and /dev/sdb.  When I stick a USB stick in,
> > it it becomes /dev/sdc.  However, my DVD drive is not /dev/sdc, it's
> > not /dev/sdd.

> > I've tried 'ls -lrt /dev', yet there's not entry there after boot
> > time.

> > Would somebody please help me to mount this CD.

> > Thanks!


> It usually is /dev/sr0. There might also be symlinks like /dev/cdrom
> and /dev/dvd but that depends on udev.

/dev/sr0 it is!  I suppose that's mnemonic for Sata cdRom zero.  ;-(  The
symlinks are there, too.

> Hope this helps,

Very much so.  Thanks!

> Florian Philipp

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

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