Pioneer DVD-ROM detected as CD-ROM

[garwain]

I picked up a cheap Pioneer DVD-ROM (no model number found) a while ago off ebay. It worked quite well under windows, but when I installed linux, I didn't get a /dev/dvd, I got /dev/cdrom, and my cdrom is /dev/cdrom1.

Any ideas how I can get this DVD drive working under redhat7?

 

[666cartman]

It doesn't matter if it is recognized as cd-rom or dvd by your OS, because the only diverence between those two in the driver is the size of the media, try to put a dvd into it and mount it and you'll recognize that you can read the data

 

[hads]

Some DVD software will look for /dev/dvd so you can adjust the sym links in /dev if you need.

Do an `ls -l /dev/cdrom*` and see where the links are actually pointing to (/dev/hdN - where N = a-d)

Then delete /dev/cdrom and create /dev/dvd in its place

e.g. `ln -s /dev/hdN /dev/dvd` and do the same for changing cdrom1 to cdrom.

Hope this helps
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