Using Your CD Drive
Verifying the CD Drive Operation
Verifying the CD Drive Operation
To verify that your workstation can communicate with the CD drive, follow the steps covered in this section. Note that to perform the steps required in this section, you must be superuser (root). If you cannot log in as root contact your system administrator.
1.Log in as root.
2.Type the following command at the shell prompt and press Enter:
/usr/sbin/ioscan
After a few seconds the ioscan utility lists all of the I/O devices that use the “sdisk” driver. Your CD drive should be among the devices listed. The list appears similar to the following:
H/W Path ClassDescription
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10/0/15/1.5.0 | disk | SEAGATE ST39102LC |
10/0/15/1.6.0 | disk | SEAGATE ST39102LC |
10/0/14/0.0.0 | disk | TEAC |
If ioscan does not detect any usable I/O system devices, such as the CD drive, nothing is output and you are returned to the system prompt. Since this indicates possibly that the driver for the CD drive is not configured, read the section “Configuring the CD Driver” in this chapter.
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