On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> to the growisofs command. How could one determine that the media was >> placed at >> >> /dev/sr1 > > > Your CD/DVD drive will appear as /dev/sr[some-number]. Some systems have two > drives, so they'll be /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1. Depending on > how your machine was installed, your first drive may be /dev/sr1. > I've not sorted out why exactly, but I've seen it. > > Usually the udev rules also set up appropriate symlinks in /dev to > point at the devices. For example, /dev/cdrom will generally point to > the appropriate device: > > root@prophead ~]# ls -l /dev/cdrom > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 15 11:23 /dev/cdrom -> sr0 > > It should also create a /dev/dvd symlink which will also point at the > correct device, but none of my F17 systems seem to set up /dev/dvd* > links anymore (boo!). > > Also note that if you have two drives, you'll still have some questions > as to which drive is what. The system will have /dev/sr0 and /dev/sr1, > and quite possibly symlinks like /dev/cdrom (pointed at /dev/sr0) and > /dev/cdrom1 (pointed at /dev/sr1). > > After installing blank media, you can look at /var/log/messages or the > output of dmesg to see which drive saw the new media. > > My recommendation is to feed "/dev/cdrom=/path/to/iso/image" to > growisofs and see if that'll get you anywhere or stick with brasero > to burn your disks. > > Yes, it's confusing if you've not dealt with it before. Thanks, Rick, for your very useful clarification! Paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
