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what's the difference between /dev/hdc, /dev/sr0, /dev/cdrom

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I created 2 virtual machines with VMware Workstation 7. They have identical hardwares. One guest is CentOS 5.6, another is Mandriva 2011. When I try to mount the cdrom in guest OS, in CentOS, I should execute in Mandriva, I should execute I also remebered in some other Linux variant, I had to use M…

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mount /dev/hdc /path/to/mount

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is the third IDE hard drive - Secondary Master. is the first SCSI CD-ROM device in the system. This may be misleading as SCSI and SATA are interchangeable in Linux terminology. There is also SCSI emulation of ATAPI devices in some Unix systems (in F…

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