Accessing my CD-Drive

Sean McMahon smcmahon at usgs.gov
Tue Jan 4 15:37:08 EST 2005


Can'd you just add your self to the cdrom group?
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "W. Nick Dotson" <nickdotson at bellsouth.net>
To: "speakup list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 3:36 PM
Subject: Accessing my CD-Drive


> I've brailled and read Janina's advice to me about how to copy my "tar" and
"gz" html document files.  However, I'm still missing something with respect to
> accessing my cd-rom drive.  I've tried such things as:
> "/dev/fdc"
> and
> "cd /dev/fdc"
> to no avail.  Do I have to "mount" the drive first, to be able to access it,
and see thefile names?  Maybe,
> "mount /dev/fdc"?
>
> Nick
>
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