On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 12:27 -0400, Jacques B. wrote: > > He is using F7, so it will be /dev/scd? - probably /dev/scd0 > > Remember, in F7, all IDE drives are handled as SCSI drives. Hard > > drives are sda, sdb, sdc, etc, regardless of where they sit on the > > chain. (Except that the chain is scanned in the normal order.) > > CD/DVD drives are scd0, scd1, etc. Tape drives are st0, st1, etc. > > > > > If it's an external USB/firewire drive then it will be /dev/sd?. > > > > > Again, it will be /dev/scd? and not /dev/sd? The SCSI drivers name > > devices depending on what type of device they are. > > > > Mikkel > > -- > > > Thanks for that clarification Mikkel. I haven't yet jumped to F7 so > was not aware of that. Using FC6 on one of my machines at work, and > this home machine dual boots to FC5. I see I best get going with F7 > to learn of these changes (although 8 isn't far away so may just wait > a few more months and jump right to F8 - I've been doing fresh > installs when upgrading so not an issue). Is this only F7 doing this > now or other distros as well? > > Jacques B. > Sorry for not giving enough specifics. The drive is a built in multi-recorder (CD-RW, DVD-RW). The devices /dev/sd1-6 are the hard drive partitions, with also a /dev/sda. There is another block device /dev/sdb. However, in CD Player for example the box in preferences to select the device is greyed out. Sound juicer "... could not find any CD-ROM drives to read.". Totem has eject and play/pause greyed out when a DVD is in the drive and the open dialogue has no option to point to /dev/sdb. There are 2 character devices /dev/sg0-1 as well. -- Regards Simon
