Help DVDRom detected as CDRom
 

I only have a DVDRom drive and it is detected only as a CDRom drive in Redhat8.0.

I have read somewhere in the forums to create a symlink to the actual dvd-rom and create a mount point.

Do I have to delete the mount point for the CDRom?

Well actually the real device is probably like /dev/hdc or similiar. Keeping it as /dev/cdrom as a symlink shouldn't harm anything. But if you want it referred to and linked to /dev/dvd you can create a link with the ln -s command.

ln -s /dev/hdX /dev/dvd

Where X is your actual device letter.