On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:10:02AM +0200, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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! > > -- > Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Probably it's /dev/sr0, but you can find out for sure by looking in /dev. -- /\ /\ <\ /> ^ caveat utilitor 'v-v'