Re: Which device is my CDROM?

[Jeff Katcher <Jeff_Katcher@canamera.com>]

Max Neunhoeffer wrote:
> 
> Hi there!
> 
> I am no alpha expert but also on intel SCSI-CDROMs can be reached via
>   /dev/sr0   or  /dev/scd0
>   /dev/sr1   or  /dev/scd1
>   ...

None of these devices exist, the only devices that begin with an s are
the sd* and stdin,stdout,stderr


> IDE/ATAPI-CDROMs are reached just by the normal hard disk devices:
>   /dev/hda
>   /dev/hdb
>   /dev/hdc
>   /dev/hdd


Yup, but I don't have any IDE/ATAPI devices

> I believe this is true for the alpha architecture as well.
> 
> You find this information in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
> 
> /dev/cdrom is normally just a link to the real device.
Ya, One I will be using as soon as I can

Thanks, Jeff