On Sunday 07 May 2006 20:30, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
I have a SuSE 9.2 system and have been a Linux user for some time, however I have not managed to understand te below scenario.
On this system I have 2 IDE drives, a 1.44" stiffy drive, a read only CDROM and a dual layer DVD R/RW drive.
My two HDDs are specified as hda and hdb however my optical drives are not labeled with /dev/xxx names, in the /etc/fstab file ie as /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd?
Why are they, and should they be, that way?
/dev/cdrom and /dev/dvdrecorder are simply links to /dev/hd? as appropriate - it is set up that way so that programs which need to refer to them don't need to know which physical device is which. In view of your other post, you might want to check that /dev/dvdrecorder does actually point to the correct device (from info below, /dev/hdd) and has the correct permissions.
BIOS wise hda is my primary master with hdb as the primary slave. My CDROM, which came with the machine and was Secondary master is now Secondary slave, The DVD R/RW is the Secondary Master. Hda is the Primary Master.
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If I browse into /dev with konqi I can see a dvdrecorder entry but not a cdrom one. Howcome? Should entry only appear if there is something in the drive or the contents are mounted?
It should be there if the drive is in the machine, SFAIK. Dylan -- "The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out." (Chinese Proverb)