On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 01:42:33PM -0500, Penguin Lover Denis squawked:
> My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the
> only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what
> Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM
> device forced to /dev/cdrom in Audacious, unwittingly, before and was
> wondering why my CDs were not playing! However, my fstab is still
> "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user
> 0 0" - so should I switch this to /dev/hda instead of /dev/cdrom?
Sure, if you like.
> If so, should some link be made to /dev/cdrom, if other programs may
> be querying /dev/cdrom for the sake of Linux standard convention, or
> is /dev/cdrom already a link, which was broken in my case?
The default udev scripts should have been able to automatically create
symlinks for optical devices in /dev. Whether yours is broken, you can
find out by trying to ls -l /dev/cdrom :)
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