[ale] Debian 2.6.8/Plextor dvd help please

[Jim Seymour]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 02:02:10PM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:57, Jim Seymour wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Just got a shiny new Plextor dvd writer and cannot find it to mount it
> > correctly. I have looked around and have not been able to find an
> > answer. This is a system with scsi hard and tape drives and the new dvd
> > writer and floppy on the ide system. The kernel is a 2.6.8 Debian stock.
> > So far I have not been able to determine what device the dvd writer is
> > using. The usual suggestions of hdc (It is the master on the secondary
> > channel) have not found the drive. I can see it identified in the bios
> > boot messages so i guess it is connected correctly. Any advice or
> > reading suggestions appreciated :-)
> 
> Does "dmesg | grep hdc" show anything?
> > 

Thanks James,

dmesg | grep hdc returns empty :-\ In fact I can't even find any
reference to the drive in dmesg. At this point all I am interested in
doing is being able to mount the drive to view the files on a cd or play
music cd's on it.  I can worry with how to burn stuff later if this
makes the process any easier.

Jim Seymour