Where are my DVD drives? [solved]

Unclethommy · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 407

Hi there,

Quick question on how i can find which folder in my /dev folder represents my both my DVD-RW drive and my CD-RW/DVDROM drive? is there a slicker way that to try to stick a cd in there and try to mount every single folder and se ewhich yields the files on the CD?

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject:

First, it won't be a "folder".

Second, how are your drives connected to the computer? For example, I have a DVD drive connected to the secondary IDE controller as the master device. It is /dev/hdc. I have a CDROM connected to that same controller, but as the slave device. It is /dev/hdd. My primary hard drive is the master device on the primary IDE controller. It is /dev/hda. My second hard drive is connected to my SATA controller and is /dev/sda.
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Unclethommy · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 407

Just stuck my head into the computer (ouch!)

I have my only hardrive in my primary IDE (which is hda)

I have my CDRW/DVDROM drive as the slave to this on the primary IDE (would this be hdb ?)

I have my DVD-RW on my secondary as a master(would this be hdc?)

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 11:58 pm Post subject:

Very good grasshopper.

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baobei · n00b Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 20 Location: Canada, Eh

Hi, I'm a noob but maybe this can help...

grep -i toshiba /var/log/messages

Replace toshiba with the name of your dvd drive.

My output from the above is this...

x32gentoo hdd: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

The hdd after the hostname is the device. Thus, it can be found at /dev/hdd. However, udev will create a symlink to this device and it will be known as /dev/dvd.

1eyeJohnson · Posted: Thu Jul 27, 2006 3:42 am Post subject:

Or maybe dmesg | grep -i dvd
Same thing, really.

Unclethommy · Guru Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 407

That did the trick, found both my drives and have added them to fstab , thank you all