Mark Knecht wrote: > I think I touched on this a couple of weeks ago but never had time to > dig in. At that time I thought this problem was only on one machine > but now I see it's on every machine I've looked at this morning. Not a > single machine has /dev/cdrom anymore, nor /dev/dvd or any of the > other incantations that have existed forever. > > First, this is udev doing (or not doing) this, correct? > > As shown below hwinfo see the cdrom drive, and there are long existing > udev rules that appear to want to create the devices. These rules have > worked in the past but don't now. > > Are others running Gentoo stable, and in this case udev-171-r9, seeing > this problem? > > Anyone recognize what's wrong with the udev rules below, or does udev > no longer generate these devices at all? I understand that the > 70-persistent-net.rules stuff has been 'removed'. Is this true for CDs > also or have I botched something up on all these machines? > > Thanks in advance and please ask me to post anything else required. > I've gone through the latest Gentoo install docs and don't see that > I'm doing anything other than what they tell me to do but with udev in > such a state of flux I've obviously missed something. > > Thanks, > Mark > > <<<SNIP>>> >
On my rig for a long time now, I have used the sr0 device. My DVD/CD burning app, k3b, uses it for the CD/DVD drives. It works. From my understanding this switched quite some time ago but can't recall the reasoning behind it. I don't have /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore. Everything so far has worked tho. It just uses /dev/sr0 instead. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
