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Getting CD/DVD and Floppy drives to work
I realise that this is probably not a Knoppix issue, but at the same time I am running Knoppix so I thought I'd try here for help ![Smile](images/smilies/icon_smile.gif)
I bought a laptop and a Knoppix distro, and had little trouble in overwriting the Chinese Windows it cam with and putting knoppix on the HDD.
But I'm having a bit of trouble with it. Namely, CDs and Floppies are giving me grief.
Firstly, the laptop is an ASUS S8600 (also known as the S86A).
It came with an external DVD-ROM/CDR(W?) drive, and an external floppy drive that's USB.
The DVD drive answers to /dev/sda. Now, how do I go about:
* Configuring so that I can type mount (something) as any user and the drive is mounted at /cdrom. Additionally, can I get this done when a CD/DVD is inserted into the drive? On startup of the laptop?
* I don't know what the floppy is answering to. How do I find out? Can it be configured to behave as for the DVD drive above?
And lastly, I bought a USB cable (USB2.0 spec). What kind of linux software do I need for using it?
Thanks for anyone's help in advance
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Somewhere in this link:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=12510
I got my dvd drive to work. Had to create symlinks that point to the drive.
Post this info
ls -la /dev/sda*
ls -la /dev/dvd
May need to create the symlinks.
dmesg in console and near the top should be info about the drive. The scsi# is needed because it is associated with the corresponding scd#.
Check the last page of that thread. Got it to finally work.
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