On Tuesday 04 January 2011 17:44:25 Tim wrote: > On Tuesday 04 January 2011 14:27:44 [email protected] wrote: > > 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 > > OK I got this off the net, but could you not ask it for the volume label?? > here the command I found > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,exec,dev,ro,noauto 0 0 > OK, ignore the command I copied over the wrong one that the mount command.
Tim -- 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
