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whoop

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Registered: 2009-05-28

Posts: 101

DVD player is missing

I cannot find my dvd/cd burner/player on my fresh install... Maybe it is because I installed via usb?

ls /dev/{c,dv}d*
ls: cannot access /dev/cd*: No such file or directory
ls: cannot access /dev/dvd*: No such file or directory

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: DVD player is missing

For quite a while Arch specific cd symlinks are no longer created
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=168068

2011-05-19: udev 169-1 removed cdsymlinks.sh
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … 60ccd3d56e
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … 202c7b0d6e

Edit: Have you tried accessing it directly e.g. via /dev/sr0 ?

[karol@black ~]$ ls -al /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 04-06 16:06 /dev/cdrom -> sr0

Edit 2: Just in case the optical drive is still missing: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=138062

Last edited by karol (2012-04-06 16:35:10)

whoop

Member

Registered: 2009-05-28

Posts: 101

Re: DVD player is missing

For quite a while Arch specific cd symlinks are no longer created
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=168068

2011-05-19: udev 169-1 removed cdsymlinks.sh
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … 60ccd3d56e
http://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/ … 202c7b0d6e

Edit: Have you tried accessing it directly e.g. via /dev/sr0 ?

[karol@black ~]$ ls -al /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 04-06 16:06 /dev/cdrom -> sr0

OK, thank you for the information.

ls -al /dev/cdrom               
ls: cannot access /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory

dmesg | grep sr give me:

[    2.246340] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
[    2.246926] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0  

My goal is to just be able to pop in a (empty) cd or dvd and that it will be found automatically.

Is it correct that I should enter?:

ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrw	
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/dvd
ln -s /dev/sr0 /dev/dvdrw

or is there a better solution?

Last edited by whoop (2012-04-06 16:50:12)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: DVD player is missing

Symlinks are fine.

Alternatively, you can edit your app's config so that it uses /dev/sr0 instead of /dev/cdrom.

My goal is to just be able to pop in a (empty) cd or dvd and that it will be found automatically.

Not sure what you mean by 'found'. You can't mount an empty disc via 'mount' command and I don't know how the various automounting systems work.