On Tuesday 04 January 2011, [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 Pardon if this is irrelevant (because the cd isnt actually mounted!) but if its mounted, surely "mount |grep iso" should give you a line to parse providing the cd device (unless you have more than 1 cd drive - I have:) - & they are both mounted - unlikely) Regards Andy
-- Andy Paterson -- 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
