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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines)
Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:15:12
Message-Id: 433ADC61.1090009@asmallpond.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines) by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2
3 >In my case the drives are there and working, but the /dev/ names are
4 >more old style.
5 >
6 >mark@lightning ~ $ ls /dev/cdr
7 >cdrom cdrom1 cdrw cdrw1
8 >mark@lightning ~ $ ls /dev/cdrom
9 >/dev/cdrom
10 >mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrom
11 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrom -> hda
12 >mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrom1
13 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdb
14 >mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrw
15 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrw -> hda
16 >mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrw1
17 >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrw1 -> hdb
18 >mark@lightning ~ $
19 >
20 >Everything is working except I'd have to change fstab to make it easy.
21 >Thought I'd ask if there was a known change about udev naming that I
22 >hadn't heard about.
23 >
24 >
25
26 I am pretty sure this is intentional. The /dev/cdroms/XXX syntax was
27 "devfs" style, which is now dead.
28
29 See the devel list thread starting at:
30 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29504
31
32 Or the udev change log at:
33 http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-fs/udev/ChangeLog
34
35 -Richard
36
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38 gentoo-user@g.o mailing list

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