Tim wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 21:43 -0500, John wrote:
I've been messing around, trying to get the floppy and cd burner to
work/appear, with little success. I've noticed in the dev folder, the
icons for the floppy and burner have that green backwards arrow. What's
up with that crap?
Dunno what you're using to view that folder, but if you use the command
line, you can see something like this:
$ ll /dev/cd*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 14 14:03 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Mar 14 14:03 /dev/cdwriter -> hdc
It indicates that the cdrom device is a link to the hdc device.
Whilst some things can make use of your CD-ROM just as long as they can
find it, somewhere. Other things will only treat it like one if the
device name fits a certain pattern (e.g. has cdrom or dvdrom in it).
I go Computer (desktop icon) / Filesystem / dev (folder) and the cd
drive items (icons?) are there- not in a folder or anything. There's
similar icons for the floppy drive, but they're in a folder (in dev)
named fd0. I got thinking last night- would something like this work: if
I pulled the power cables for the two drives and booted the box, so FC
could register them not being there... I could shut down the box, plug
the drives back in and boot the box up again. I was thinking FC -should-
see the two drives as new hardware?
Its strange- I run hwbrowser, which sees the two drives, but hwbroswer
says there's no drivers- unlike the other hardware. When I click/start
the cd player in Apps/Sound and Video, it says that's its unable to run
correctly. Clciking on details show that cd player is /dev/scd0... I try
to 'set the device' and that option is greyed out. Last night I thought
SELinux had something to do with it, but I couldn't find anything that
would disable the drives.
John
