Re: CDROM/CDROM1 disappear

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Ron Hauptfleisch wrote:
> Every time I reboot, the links /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1 disappear.  
> Once I manually reenter them to point to /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd, 
> everything is fine.  Note, I boot with hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi to 
> support xcdroast.

And that's why they disappear.  As far as the system is concerned,
they're no longer IDE, they're SCSI.

If you must access them via the IDE interface (hdc and hdd), then
put "ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom;ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom1" in your
/etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
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