[ale] How to Mount a DVD-ROM Drive?

[brian at polibyte.com]

On Mon, 11 May 2009 18:27:41 -0400, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> I've made entries in /etc/fstab and added /dev/sbd{1,2}, so my
partitions
>> mount every time I boot.  What is the device path to the DVD burner or
>> how
>> can I find that out?  Thanks.
.

I believe the first optical drive will be /dev/scd0 or /dev/sr0, the second
will be /dev/scd1 or /dev/sr1, etc. You can look for these in /sys/block.

All the best,
Brian Pitts