Re: OS may not have recognised my DVD....

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:55:00PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > > > >> > >> I am not sure if the the OS saw my new DVD drive (Benq)correctly. I also > >> have a CD drive in my machine. > >> > > >In *nix there are many different types of files: > >directories, data files, symbolic lin

Re: OS may not have recognised my DVD....

> > I am not sure if the the OS saw my new DVD drive (Benq)correctly. I also > have a CD drive in my machine. > In *nix there are many different types of files: directories, data files, symbolic links, character devices, block devices, etc. You need to determine what the actual block devi

Re: OS may not have recognised my DVD....

Hi Michael, On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:03:57AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian foks, > > I am not sure if the the OS saw my new DVD drive (Benq)correctly. I also > have a CD drive in my machine. > > When I login in gnome I see an icon for the floppy drive cdrom1 as it calls > it

OS may not have recognised my DVD....

Dear Debian foks, I am not sure if the the OS saw my new DVD drive (Benq)correctly. I also have a CD drive in my machine. When I login in gnome I see an icon for the floppy drive cdrom1 as it calls it and the file system. Fedora for example made a separate icon for the DVD drive. If you lo