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On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:42:33PM -0500, Penguin Lover Denis squawked: |
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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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Sure, if you like. |
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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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The default udev scripts should have been able to automatically create |
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symlinks for optical devices in /dev. Whether yours is broken, you can |
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find out by trying to ls -l /dev/cdrom :) |
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The Short History of Medicine |
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2000 B.C. - Here, eat this root |
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1000 A.D. - That root is heathen. |
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Here, say this prayer. |
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1850 A.D. - That prayer is superstition. |
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Here, drink this potion. |
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1940 A.D. - That potion is snake oil. |
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Here, swallow this pill. |
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1985 A.D. - That pill is ineffective. |
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Here, take this antibiotic. |
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2000 A.D. - That antibiotic doesn't work any more. |
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Here, eat this root. |
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