Author: Kevin Brown Date: Subject: More on the embarrassing admission
Chris Gehlker wrote:
> Well, I chased the problem with not being able to dup disks from the dvd
> drive in my iBook to the FireWire LaCie burner to a bug in the YDL 3.0.1
> installer. It seems that there is nothing like /dev/dvd or /dev/cdrom
> after doing a clean install with the 3.0.1 installer. Unfortunately, the
> way I discovered this was by re-installing Linux on my desktop because I
> wanted to change the partitioning scheme.
>
> I understand that the lack of entries in the /dev directories may or may
> not indicate a lack of drivers in the kernel. Beyond that my knowledge
> of the relationship between the stuff in /dev and actual drivers is
> pretty sketchy. With this level of knowledge is it reasonable that I
> should try to fix this myself or should I just wait for Terra Soft?
On my Red Hat systems /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd are just symlinks to the real
device just to make it easier to work with them.
Even on an Apple they should follow the same convention for SCSI and IDE drives
for naming.
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