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On 12/17/2009 08:42 PM, Denis wrote: |
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> Hello folks, |
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> Quick question. |
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> My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the |
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> only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what |
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> Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM |
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> device forced to /dev/cdrom in Audacious, unwittingly, before and was |
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> wondering why my CDs were not playing! However, my fstab is still |
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> "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user |
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> 0 0" - so should I switch this to /dev/hda instead of /dev/cdrom? |
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> If so, should some link be made to /dev/cdrom, if other programs may |
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> be querying /dev/cdrom for the sake of Linux standard convention, or |
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> is /dev/cdrom already a link, which was broken in my case? |
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> Thank you, |
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> Denis |
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You don't need an fstab entry at all. These days, when you insert a CD, |
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it will get mounted automatically and appear in /media, just like USB |
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storage devices. |
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