norman wrote: >>>> what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD? >>> It plays, no problem. >> Surely then the device must exist? > > On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a > solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no > response so I tried with /dev/dvd1 with the following result:- > > nor...@gruber:~$ ls -l /dev/dvd1 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2009-05-25 16:31 /dev/dvd1 -> scd0 > nor...@gruber:~$ > > Is this any help to sorting things out. I use the terminal from time to > time but I am never sure what things mean but I am learning.
Hello, Norman. You might find an answer to your question in: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules This keeps track of the CD/DVD drives that have been detected on your system: If you upgrade your CD/DVD drive, or connect it differently, the "udev" system will then create a symbolic link for the new drive when it is detected and add it to the file. I suspect that your /dev/dvd1 was created automatically by "udev" after one of your upgrades. Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk mailto:a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/