location of cdrom

[Gregory Nowak]

Type:
"dmesg |more"
without the quotes.
Look at the resulting output to see what your cd-rom drive is.
Here's an example from my main box.
hda: FUJITSU MPD3064AT, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 9100, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 250 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
hde: FUJITSU MPF3204AT, ATA DISK drive
In the above, hdb is my cd-rom drive
before the ide-scsi emulation driver starts on my system.
hdx would probably be where your drive is. Hth.
Greg


On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 05:46:47PM -0500, dannyboy wrote:
> My floppy is /dev/fd0 and the hard drive's linux is on /dev/hda5.  How is a cdrom accessed with linux?  Do I need to mount that drive?  Is there a way to fix it so I do not have to mount the floppy after logging on all the time?