On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:53 -0500, Scott Berry wrote: > How would one automatically mount a combo drive which is both dvd and > cd-rw? If it has CD-R capabilities (-R, +R, -RW, +RW), it'll show up as /dev/cdwriter. If it has DVD-R capabilities (-R, +R, -RW, +RW), it'll show up as /dev/dvdwriter. My DVD+-RW drive shows up as: /dev/dvd, /dev/dvd-hdd, /dev/dvdrw, /dev/dvdrw-hdd, /dev/dvdwriter, /dev/dvdwriter-hdd However, it _also_ shows up as: /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom-hdd, /dev/cdrw, /dev/cdrw-hdd, /dev/cdwriter, /dev/cdwriter-hdd so it's obvious my drive can "do it all" (well, it's not a multi-layer or blueray drive). Note, however, that ALL of those names are really just symbolic links to the actual device. In my case, the DVD+-RW drive is the slave drive on my second IDE controller, or /dev/hdd (which is what all the "-hdd" stuff in the names indicate). Since all of the /dev/cd* and /dev/dvd* names are just symlinks to /dev/hdd, I could use any of them or use /dev/hdd directly. My choice. Now, as to how it mounts, if you have blank media in the drive it's not mountable anyway. Nautilus (Gnome) or Konqueror (KDE) will probably show the blank media so you can drop files on it and have them burned to the media if you want, but it's not mounted anywhere. If it has mountable media in it, udev will most likely automount it somewhere in the /media directory. If there's a volume label on the media, the mountpoint will be "/media/volume-label-found-on-the-media". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - "I'd explain it to you, but your brain might explode." - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
