On Sunday 07 October 2007 16:47, Karl Larsen wrote: > Simon Slater wrote: > > I have an Acer Extensa 5220 with a Slimtype DVD A DS8A1P CD/DVD drive. > > After installing Fedora 7 this drive is not found by any application. > > Will it be one of the /dev/sda devices? I'm not sure where to start > > with this one, googling didn't come up with anything useful. > > I am confused. How did you install F7? Did you do it without using > this drive? > > In anycase a DVD drive should show up on /dev/ somewhere. > Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI Looking on my Fedora 7 install, and opening VLC. I see that I have the device name set as /dev/scd0. My optical drive is one of those cdrom/cdwriter/dvdrom drives, and often you find that apps are pointing to the wrong device in /dev, particularly if you have more than one optical drive, as I have on the other machine. Nigel.
