On 15/03/13 20:00, Bob Goodwin - Zuni, Virginia, USA wrote:

I installed an "optical drive" in this F-18/64 XFCE computer and it is apparently recognized by several applications however I don't see an icon come up on the desktop when I put a cdrom in the drive. The same disk works as expected in a similar F-18 computer.

When I put the disk in the drive the light flickers for a while and then stops, no icon appears, and it is reluctant to eject.

[bobg@box10 ~]$ ll /dev/sg1
crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 1 Mar 16  2013 /dev/sg1

I don't know how to troubleshoot this so any help is appreciated.

Bob


At least part of the problem is "/dev/cdrom -> sr0" is not being created. I still don't understand all of this but I see the following on this computer:

[root@box10 bobg]# udevadm info --query=all --name=/dev/sr0
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
N: sr0
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.0/ata2/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0/block/sr0
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: MAJOR=11
E: MINOR=0
E: SUBSYSTEM=block

While on another computer set up identically but in which the optical drive was present when Fedora-18 was installed:

[bobg@Box7 ~]$  udevadm info --query=all --name=/dev/sr0
P: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata3/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sr0
N: sr0
L: -100
S: cdrom
S: disk/by-id/ata-PLDS_DVD+_-RW_DH-16A6S
E: DEVLINKS=/dev/cdrom /dev/disk/by-id/ata-PLDS_DVD+_-RW_DH-16A6S
E: DEVNAME=/dev/sr0
E: DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1f.2/ata3/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sr0
E: DEVTYPE=disk
E: ID_ATA=1
E: ID_ATA_SATA=1
E: ID_ATA_SATA_SIGNAL_RATE_GEN1=1
E: ID_BUS=ata
E: ID_CDROM=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_CD_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_PLUS_R_DL=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_R=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RAM=1
E: ID_CDROM_DVD_RW=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW=1
E: ID_CDROM_MRW_W=1
E: ID_MODEL=PLDS_DVD+_-RW_DH-16A6S
E: ID_MODEL_ENC=PLDS\x20DVD+\x2f-RW\x20DH-16A6S\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20\x20
E: ID_REVISION=YD11
E: ID_SERIAL=PLDS_DVD+_-RW_DH-16A6S
E: ID_TYPE=cd
E: MAJOR=11
E: MINOR=0
E: MPATH_SBIN_PATH=/sbin
E: SUBSYSTEM=block
E: TAGS=:seat:systemd:uaccess:
E: UDISKS_PRESENTATION_NOPOLICY=0
E: USEC_INITIALIZED=662366

It seems obvious that this is related to my problem. There must be a right way to add an DVD/CD drive after the initial operating system installation?

Certainly I should not have to re-install Fedora 18 to get the optical drive to work?

Bob

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