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Re: No cdrom device



On 2011-12-23 18:30:25 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> On 12/23/2011 03:38 PM, Wayne Topa wrote:
> >On 12/23/2011 12:18 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> >>CDROM tray will not respond to "eject":
> >>========================
> >>[Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject
> >>eject: tried to use `/media/cdrom0' as device name but it is no block
> >>device
> >>eject: tried to use `/dev/scd0' as device name but it is no block device
> >>eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
> >>=========================

Yes, /dev/scd0 disappeared after a recent upgrade (after 2011-11-17).

> >~$ dmesg |grep -A2 -B2 cdrom
> >[ 2.592157] sd 2:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
> >[ 2.640560] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2
> >cdda tray
> >[ 2.640634] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> >[ 2.640848] sr 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
> >[ 2.704036] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device number 2 using ohci_hcd
> >
> >Which shows my cdrom is /dev/sd0
> 
> Woops                     ^^^ /dev/sr0  sorry
> >
> >I eject with:
> >eject /dev/sr0
> >
> >or with this line in my /etc/fstab
> >/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
> >
> >eject /media/cdrom0

Running lshw *as root* says which /dev files can be used.
In my case:

           *-cdrom
                description: DVD-RAM writer
                product: DVD+-RW TS-U633A
                vendor: TSSTcorp
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/cdrom
                logical name: /dev/cdrw
                logical name: /dev/dvd
                logical name: /dev/dvdrw
                logical name: /dev/sr0
                version: D300
                capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
                configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc

I've chosen to use /dev/cdrom in case /dev/sr0 would be replaced
by something else.

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