On 7/19/06, don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have a system with an SATA hard drive, and two IDE cdroms.

The kernel sees them as shown by these lines in /var/log/messages

==============================================================================
Jul  7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hda: SONY DVD-ROM DDU1615, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jul  7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hdb: SONY DVD RW DW-Q120A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Jul  7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 1725kB Cache, 
UDMA(33)
Jul  7 21:19:31 reid1 kernel: hdb: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 
2048kB Cache, UDMA(66)
==============================================================================

However there are no devices files /dev/cdrom or /dev/cdroms/.

What about /dev/hda and /dev/hdb?  Do those exist?

-Richard
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