On Thu, May 01, 2003 at 12:00:06PM -0700, John Lowry wrote: : Hi everybody-- : : I'm running 8.1 on a Sony Vaio. After booting, the system doesn't : recognize my CDrom, or perhaps I don't know what to call it... : : However, doing a cdrecord -scanbus, I get the following: : : cdrecord -scanbus : Cdrecord 1.11a28 (i686-suse-linux) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jvrg Schilling : Linux sg driver version: 3.2.0 : Using libscg version 'schily-0.6' : scsibus0: : 0,0,0 0) 'Sony ' 'MSC-U01N ' '1.00' Removable Disk : 0,1,0 1) * : 0,2,0 2) * : 0,3,0 3) * : 0,4,0 4) * : 0,5,0 5) * : 0,6,0 6) * : 0,7,0 7) * : 2,7,0 207) * [snip snip] : : So, it would appear that the system sees it and the floppy. I can get : to the floppy (/dev/sdb). How do I get my CD to work? Is there : something I can do to find out what /dev entry it has or should have? : : Thanks for your attention. Obvious canidates are /dev/sda and /dev/sr0. You may also want to check and see if you have /dev/dvd, /dev/cdrom or /dev/cdrecorder entries and see where they symlink. Oh, and take a look at /etc/fstab. The install/setup may have made an entry for it there. --Jerry Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death... ...It's much more important than that!