Article Summary: This article provides information on how to determine which device is your CD-ROM / DVD-ROM in linux.
- $ dmesg | egrep -i 'cdrom|dvd|cd/rw|cd-rom'
- Example outputs :
- RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL 5.5) VM in vSphere 5.1 [hdc is the device] :
- hdc: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 1X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 32kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
- XenServer 6.2 physical server [sr0 is the device] :
- [ 25.139853] scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM iDRAC Virtual CD 0323 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 25.445501] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x cd/rw caddy
[ 25.445505] Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
[ 25.445648] sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0