Re: How Does One Re-run write_cd_rules
On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 11:00 PM, Martin McCormick
<martin@x.it.okstate.edu> wrote:
> This system started out as lenny in 2009 and I just upgraded
> to squeeze. Most of the system is fine but I have lost both
> CDROM's which used to be /media/cdrom0 and /media/cdrom1. I
> didn't help anything when I accidently left a usb drive
> installed so it looks like the thing to do is clean out
> /etc/udev/rules.d of 70-persistent-cd.rules and start over minus
> the usb drive in the hopes that I can modify the rules to get
> the CDROM's back.
>
> There is a executable file in /lib/udev called write_cd_rules
> but I can't seem to find what calls it or what $DEVPATH value it
> needs to run properly.
>
> Documentation as to how all this goes together is also
> lacking. Google searches produce about ten-quadrillian hits of
> which precisely one is relevant but described a similar
> situation in fedora and the suggested fix didn't work, here, and
> all the rest are just hits on copies of write_cd_rules and the
> generator rules file that write_cd_rules uses when one runs it.
>
> Is there a way to re-run it and produce new files that
> can be used as a starting point?
Move "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules" to another location
and run "echo add > /sys/block/sr0/uevent".
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