Re: CD Drive not being recognized




"Ken K" <kkauffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Edward S. Baiz Jr. wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I recently installed a new hard drive and a new CD-DVD drive into my
>> system. I also have a CD-Rom drive installed. It is this drive that is
>> not
>> being seen by Linux. Things were fine with this drive until I installed
>> the new CD-DVD drive. Would I have to adjust my fstab file? Could I just
>> use the "mount" command? That would seem to me to be a solution.
>>
>
> Since you added another cdrom, you will likely need to add another entry
> in
> fstab for the new drive. (cdrom1) Especially since you mentioned that the
> kernel is recognizing the existence of the drive.

It depends on the OS. Recent RedHat releases detect it with Kudzu and
possibly other tools, and put in entries in the /etc/fstab corresponding to
/media/cdrom/ or /media/cdrecorder/, which refer to appropriately generated
/dev/cdrom or /dev/cdrom1 devices. They've gotten very clever about it!


.



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