Comment 6 for bug 114816

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R. Gavilan (rgavilan) wrote : Re: [Bug 114816] Re: can't mount DVD drive or play DVD's

Brian, Correction to my last email....I checked and /dev/hdc is my
DVD-ROM drive.....RG

On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:22 +0000, R. Gavilan wrote:
> Brian,
>
> I was not familiar with the term "symlinked" so I looked it up. Does
> the output I got tell me that /dev/dvd is symlinked to /dev/hdc? If so,
> hdc is my cdrom drive and hdd is my DVD-ROM drive. Should I change the
> symlink to "ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/dvd" to symlink /dev/hdd to /dev/dvd????
>
> Again, Thanks for the help...RG
>
> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 21:12 +0000, Brian Murray wrote:
> > Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
> > better. mplayer uses '/dev/dvd' as the default device when trying to
> > play DVDs. DO you have this device and is it symlinked to '/dev/hdd'?
> > You could check with 'ls -alh /dev/dvd'. Thanks in advance.
> >
> > ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> > Assignee: (unassigned) => Brian Murray
> > Status: Unconfirmed => Needs Info
> >
>