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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: fstab and cdrom question
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:30:12
Message-Id: hge7r7$fmd$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] fstab and cdrom question by Denis
1 On 12/17/2009 10:42 AM, Denis wrote:
2 > Hello folks,
3 >
4 > Quick question.
5 >
6 > My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
7 > only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
8 > Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
9 > device forced to /dev/cdrom in Audacious, unwittingly, before and was
10 > wondering why my CDs were not playing! However, my fstab is still
11 > "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user
12 > 0 0" - so should I switch this to /dev/hda instead of /dev/cdrom?
13 > If so, should some link be made to /dev/cdrom, if other programs may
14 > be querying /dev/cdrom for the sake of Linux standard convention, or
15 > is /dev/cdrom already a link, which was broken in my case?
16
17 Take a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persisten-cd.rules, which may
18 be pointing to the wrong hardware. Just delete that file and udev
19 will create it again on the next boot.