Help needed on DVDRW device

[J. Epperson]

On Fri, September 22, 2006 08:37, Jean-Christophe RIVIERE wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We have a PowerEdge 2800 with a Dell Dvd/RW unit, it’s running Suse
> Professional 9.3 Pack 2 with 2Gb Ram and 2 3,2Ghz processor and we cannot
> write on DVD cause we do not find the device driver (!).
>
> It works perfectly on CDrw, it’s read DVD and the device could only be :
>
> /media/cdrom
>
> /media/cdrecorder
>
> Does someone know where to find the correct device ????

Those are default mount points, not device files.  You'll probably find
that /dev/cdrom is a soft-link to a real device, like:
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Sep 21 14:35 /dev/cdrom -> hdc

So, the real device is /dev/hdc in this instance.  You probably don't have
soft-links for whatever /dev name your software is using by default for
dvd.

If no soft-link is there for cdrom, try letting a cdrom automount, then
look at the device file used for /media/cdrom, first column of a "mount"
command output.