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Re: No cdrom device



 On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:01:54 -0500 "edjabr@gmail.com edjabr@gmail.com"
 suggested this:

>On Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:39:45 AM Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>> > 
>> > No, it wasn't a hardware problem.  After much travail with udev,
>> > modprobe, interrupts, etc. and leariing more about dmesg output
>> > than I care to know, I thought - well, no sr0?  Then make one!
>> > 
>> > touch /dev/sr0
>> > chown root:disk /dev/sr0
>> > chmod 660 /dev/sr0
>> 
>> You shouldn't need to do that manually. There's something broken
>> on your system.
>
>Perhaps, but the device survives reboots,  so -- if all is well, then
>it is. 

After an upgrade a couple of weeks ago, had to change the
cdrom's from /dev/scd* to /dev/sr*

Have no idea why? However, leaving them as /dev/scd* they weren't
recognised.

Charlie
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