On Sat, 19 May 2012 11:04:02 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > In /dev cdrom4, cdrw4, dvd4 and dvdrw4 all point to sr1 and cdrom6, > cdrw6, dvd6 and dvdrw6 all point to sr0 > > I just replaced a dying motherboard - the ethernet circuit failed - and > on boot up found the above soft links. Perhaps this was changed in a > recent dist-upgrade and I only now noticed the changes. Either way my > /dev/fstab file was out of date as it contained entries like > > /dev/sca1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 > > so my dvdrw drives were not found.
Are you running squeeze, wheehy, sid? How many optical devices do you have, two (CD → sr1 and DVD → sr0)? You can run "dmesg | grep sr" and send the output. (...) > Question: What are the best practice /etc/fstab entries given the > changes in /dev? You can try with: /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 Note that "/dev/cdrom" and "/dev/dvd" are the names udev gives to your devices based on the content of "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent- cdrom.rules" file. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jp8ek1$27j$1...@dough.gmane.org
