2 cd drives 1 not working

i have 2 drives:

1) cd reader/writer
2) cd reader

both are on one ide cable

the cd reader/writer drive is mounted at /mnt/cdrom

but i cannot find the other drive

i looked in /dev/

and i could only find cdrom... no "cdrom2" or soemthing like that

any suggestions?

thanks

/dev/hda IDE 1 master
/dev/hdb IDE 1 slave
/dev/hdc IDE 2 master
/dev/hdd IDE 2 slave

/dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to something along the lines of /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc etc... One way to pin point what your other drive is, as root, pipe the output of dmesg to more or less and just filter through the contents till you find it.

dmesg | less

Once that is done, and you have found it, and are sure it is your other cdrom drive, you can create another symbolic link in /dev for the future.

As root:

cd /dev
ln -s /dev/name_of_cdrom /dev/cdrom2

This will now make a sym link (short cut) named /dev/cdrom2 which now links to your 2nd cdrom drive.

All you need to do now is edit your /etc/fstab and add the /dev/cdrom2 entry in. Just copy the /dev/cdrom one that is in there now and change the values.

Good Luck
Kristijan

ah thanks kristijan that cleared alot of things up for me

i got it working now :]

thanks agaiin

Thank goodness it was the CD reader that wasn't listed, because had it been the writer you'd have to deal with the fact of an emulated SCSI device....

Well unless you use kernel 2.6.x, with ide-cdrom...rather than IDE emulation.

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