CDROM
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This article describes the setup of an internal optical drive like CD, DVD, and Blu-Ray drives.
Installation
Hardware detection
To choose the right driver, first detect the used storage controller. lspci can be used for this task:
root #lspci | grep --color -E "IDE|SATA"Kernel
Activate the following kernel options:
KERNEL Kernel options for optical storage media
Device Drivers --->
<*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers --->
[*] ATA ACPI Support
# If the drive is connected to a SATA Port Multiplier:
[*] SATA Port Multiplier support
# Select the driver for the SATA controller, e.g.:
<*> AHCI SATA support (ahci)
# If the drive is connected to an IDE controller:
[*] ATA SFF support
[*] ATA BMDMA support
# Select the driver for the IDE controller, e.g.:
<*> Intel ESB, ICH, PIIX3, PIIX4 PATA/SATA support (ata_piix)
SCSI device support --->
<*> SCSI device support
<*> SCSI CDROM support
<*> SCSI generic support
File systems --->
CD-ROM/DVD Filesystems --->
<M> ISO 9660 CDROM file system support
[*] Microsoft Joliet CDROM extensions
[*] Transparent decompression extension
<M> UDF file system support
Usage
Filesystems can be mounted in several ways:
- mount - Command for mounting file systems
- fstab - Automatic mount at boot time.
- removable media - Mount on demand.
- AutoFS - Automatic mount on demand.
Troubleshooting
See the Libata error messages article on the libata wiki.
See also
- Blu-ray — Blu-ray is the optical media successor to DVD
- CD/DVD/BD writing — how to burn optical disks on Gentoo from the command line with the app-cdr/cdrtools or app-cdr/dvd+rw-tools packages
- hdparm — a command-line utility to set and view ATA and SATA hard disk drive hardware parameters.
- FAQ - How do I burn an ISO file?
- Recommended GUI burners