On 04 January 2011 at 13:34 Ralph Corderoy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does > > ls -l /dev/disk/* > > show anything interesting if the CD is in the drive? Perhaps the CD can > have a label or UUID. You should at least see the CD drive in by-id > although that won't be useful as part numbers change. That comes back with 'No such file or directory'. However: ls -l /dev/cdrom* on this machine comes back with: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jan 4 12:33 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc Which at least tells me the device that is available here, but there is no difference when I put a disc in the hole. I also tried the technique on a machine with two DVD drives, but this was quite confusing because it indicated that the cdrom was hdd, but the TC Mount Tool thought that the CD was in hdc! The TC Mount Tool may well give sufficient clues though because it seems to be able to work out what drives the machine has and also the volume names of each disc in each drive. Maybe the source code for this will let us into the secret. Terry Coles -- Next meeting: Crown Hotel, Blandford Forum, Tuesday 2011-01-11 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
