Udev / DVD naming
Tomasz Torcz
tomek at crocom.com.pl
Mon Sep 22 07:39:56 UTC 2008
Dnia 2008-09-20, sob o godzinie 12:59 -0400, Brian C. Huffman pisze:
> All,
>
> How are dvd devices setup with regard to naming? I upgraded my
> motherboard, cpu, memory and combined the HD and DVD-RW/CDRW onto the
> same IDE channel (they were separated before one on primary, one on
> secondary), and now my dvd and cdrw devices are showing up as the
> following;
>
> [root at xyz ~]# ls -la /dev/dvd*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-09-17 19:44 /dev/dvd3 -> sr0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2008-09-17 19:44 /dev/dvdrw3 -> sr0
> Why arent they just /dev/dvd and /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrw?
>
They are new devices. Old names has been reserved for old devices.
> How can I make sure that they are (without a kludge like making /
> changing a symbolic link in the startup scripts)?
Play with /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
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Tomasz Torcz
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