On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:24 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Sunday 07 October 2007 16:47, Karl Larsen wrote: > > Simon Slater wrote: > > > I have an Acer Extensa 5220 with a Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P CD/DVD drive. > > > After installing Fedora 7 this drive is not found by any application. > > > Will it be one of the /dev/sda devices? I'm not sure where to start > > > with this one, googling didn't come up with anything useful. > > > > I am confused. How did you install F7? Did you do it without using > > this drive? > > > > In anycase a DVD drive should show up on /dev/ somewhere. > > Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI > > Looking on my Fedora 7 install, and opening VLC. I see that I have the device > name set as /dev/scd0. > > My optical drive is one of those cdrom/cdwriter/dvdrom drives, and often you > find that apps are pointing to the wrong device in /dev, particularly if you > have more than one optical drive, as I have on the other machine. > > Nigel. > This is also one of the multi recorder type, but no /dev/scd. A summary is posted in reply to Jaques B. If the whole listing is needed I'll post it. -- Regards Simon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
