Re: [gentoo-user] 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to
> dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine
> but now I see it's on every machine I've looked at this morning. Not a
> single machine has /dev/cdrom anymore, nor /dev/dvd or any of the
> other incantations that have existed forever.
>
> First, this is udev doing (or not doing) this, correct?
>
> As shown below hwinfo see the cdrom drive, and there are long existing
> udev rules that appear to want to create the devices. These rules have
> worked in the past but don't now.
>
> Are others running Gentoo stable, and in this case udev-171-r9, seeing
> this problem?
>
> Anyone recognize what's wrong with the udev rules below, or does udev
> no longer generate these devices at all? I understand that the
> 70-persistent-net.rules stuff has been 'removed'. Is this true for CDs
> also or have I botched something up on all these machines?
>
> Thanks in advance and please ask me to post anything else required.
> I've gone through the latest Gentoo install docs and don't see that
> I'm doing anything other than what they tell me to do but with udev in
> such a state of flux I've obviously missed something.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> <<<SNIP>>>
>

On my rig for a long time now, I have used the sr0 device.  My DVD/CD
burning app, k3b, uses it for the CD/DVD drives.  It works.  From my
understanding this switched quite some time ago but can't recall the
reasoning behind it. 

I don't have /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore.  Everything so far has
worked tho.  It just uses /dev/sr0 instead. 

Hope that helps. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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