DVDWritter and Slackware

[Ray]

Gerard Snitselaar wrote:

>What kernel are you running (uname -r)? You don't see a device 
>corresponding to the writer at all? @cdrom is a link to the actual 
>device for the cdrom, which is probably something along the lines 
>of /dev/hda depending on the order in which the BIOS detected them. 
>
>I know that back in the 2.4 kernel time frame if you had a ide burner
>you needed to have ide-scsi emulation either compiled into the kernel
>or loaded as a module. 2.6 kernels don't have that issue.
>
>Do you see anything in dmesg output that identifies the drive. Perhaps
>something like this:
>
>Probing IDE interface ide0...
>hda: SONY DVD RW DRU-700A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>Probing IDE interface ide1...
>hdc: ASUS CD-S520/A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>hda: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
>
>
>
>On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:20 -0700, Ray wrote:
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>>Hello all,
>>I have a DVD writter that for the life of me i cannot get to show up. 
>>When i check /mnt it has my cdrom drive but not the writter, so i ad it 
>>to /etc/fstab and when i go to mount it it tells me the device does not 
>>exist. I check /dev and sure enough to only option it cdrom at . How can i 
>>add this device to /dev so i can use the danged thing.
>>Thanks,
>>Ray.
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worked like a charm! i now have it mounted and burning away.
Thank you.