Re: What should /dev/cdrom point to?

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From: Mike Loseke
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 00:00

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In article <351B5285.5592A5D7@cs.colostate.edu>,
Lewis Brown  <brown@cs.colostate.edu> wrote:
>In the last week or so my /dev/cdrom link got pointed to /dev/hdc, which
>would be for a third hard drive!  (I should be so lucky.)  Not only do I
>not know how this happened, I can live with that, but I can't figure out
>which true device to point it to.  Until then it's on the fritz.
>
>I'm running Red Hat 4.2 and my CD is not SCSI.  Anybody got any ideas?

 Sounds normal for an IDE drive. /dev/hdc should work fine. If it were
a partition it would be something like /dev/hdc1. Try mounting a CD to
make sure, but I'll bet it works just fine. It does on my boxen.

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