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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:04 pm Post subject: how can i detect my cdroms?[solved]

i know fdisk -l for detecting my hdd but i don't know any command that list me my cd rom drives(ide and scsi because i have a scsi drive) Last edited by GNUtoo on Mon Sep 04, 2006 9:53 pm; edited 1 time in total

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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject:

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if you have cdrecord installed you can scan the SCSI bus with

Code:

cdrecord -scanbus

and the IDE bus with

Code:

cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus

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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject:

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Teetante wrote:

if you have cdrecord installed you can scan the SCSI bus with

Code:

cdrecord -scanbus

and the IDE bus with

Code:

cdrecord dev=ATA -scanbus

so it find my ata cdrom but not my scsi writter

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Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject:

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Hmm, I have no SCSI hardware but you can always try

Code:

cdrecord dev=help

to see if other options work and detect your hardware.
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:12 pm Post subject:

thanks it works but it does´t give me the /dev/sr0 i´ll use dmesg

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