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Re: DVD Questions



On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:50:18AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> How do I mount my DVD drive?
> 
> The drive is the secondary slave on the IDE bus; but for some reason, it 
> gets mapped as cdrom1, while the CD-RW drive, which is Secondary Master 
> is getting mounted as /dvd
Hi Scarlet,
/dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd, /cdrom , etc. are not REAL device names.
They are symlinks. do 'ls -l /dev/cdrom'.
They were manually created on the install or similar.
Since they are simlinks, they can be DELETED.
At which point, you can create the simlinks YOU want.
if you look in /var/log/dmesg and/or /var/log/messages, you will find a
refernce to /dev/hda, /dev/hdb,... /dev/sr0, these represent the REAL
ide or scsi devices. 
You simlink THESE to /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd ,etc.
so here is the idea:
if /dev/hdc is a cdrom and /dev/hdd is a dvd
rm /dev/cdrom
rm /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
ln -s /dev/hdh /dev/dvd
-Kev
ps. ALSO create entries in you fstab if you want to make mounting either
automatic or just easier.

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