Re: /dev/cdrom problem...

[JP Glutting <jp.glutting@verizon.net>]

Thanks Daniel,

I am using the standard (unmodified) 2.2.19-12 kernel from the Debian 
distribution. The devfsd package is not installed. I checked out the website, 
but I am not sure if this would solve my problem.

I am not mounting this manually, or I would do it the way I want it. I will 
check /etc/init.d...

I appreciate the info, Daniel.

JP

On Sunday 23 December 2001 12:42 am, Daniel Freedman wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a problem with my device configuration. I have a CD player and a CD
> writer (/dev/hdc and /dev/hdd, r
espectively), and whenever I boot up it links
> up the writer on /dev/cdrom1, and the reader on /dev/cdrom2 (/dev/cdrom is,
> correctly a link to /dev/cdrom1). I can change the links, but they go back 
to
> the other configuration after a reboot. Of course, this screws up cd 
players,
> rippers, writers, etc.
>
> Any info on how to configure this correctly?

JP,

You don't give much information, but maybe you're using a kernel with
devfs mounted automatically (or you, or one of your /etc/init.d
scripts, are mounting it manually).  Since devfs is a virtual file
system (I like to think of its analogy to the /proc fs), any changes
made to it are not preserved across reboots (or actually across
unmounting and remounting it).

If my 'devfs' guess is correct, you can find more information about it
at:

http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~rgooch/linux/docs/devfs.html

Hope this helps,
Daniel

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