On Sunday 28 June 2009, Rony Bill wrote: > On 6/28/09, Nachiketa Sadhu <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rony wrote: > >> SATA drives per slot are named as sda, sdb, sdc and sdd. If any of the > >> drives has partitions then _those_ partitions are numbered as 1,2,3 etc. > >> Therefore a SATA HDD on slot sda will have partitions sda1, sda2, sda3 > >> etc. However a CD/DVD Drive does not have partitions and is named only > >> as sda, sdb, sdc sdd etc. > >> > >> You mention above that your HDD is sda, therefore the next free name for > >> your SATA CD ROM will be sdb. As an exercise run the command 'dmesg' in > >> your terminal and look for entries for your HDD and CD drive. > > > > I am afraid not. The output from my fedora 11 is attached below. You > > will see that dvd drives are named sr0 and sr1. Of course if you say > > that the naming convention are different for cddrives then I can not say > > anything. > > > > Thanks and regards. > > > > sadhu > > > > [r...@urmi dev]# ls -l sr* > > brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 0 2009-06-28 21:18 sr0 > > brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11, 1 2009-06-28 21:18 sr1 > > [r...@urmi dev]# ls -l cd* > > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrom -> sr0 > > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrom1 -> sr1 > > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrw -> sr0 > > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 3 2009-06-28 21:18 cdrw1 -> sr1 > > [r...@urmi dev]# ls -l sd* > > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 0 2009-06-28 21:18 sda > > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 1 2009-06-28 21:18 sda1 > > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 2 2009-06-28 21:18 sda2 > > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 3 2009-06-28 21:18 sda3 > > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 4 2009-06-28 21:18 sda4 > > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 16 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb > > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb1 > > brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 18 2009-06-28 21:18 sdb2 > > [r...@urmi dev]# > > Hmm! So this appears to be the new way of naming CD drives by other > distros too.
actually it was the old way of handling scsi drives and cdrw drives, and was discarded at least 2 years ago. My sarge (and earlier) setupsused sr0. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
