Re: [gentoo-dev] devfs - scd0&1 devices

[Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>]

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 20:33:25 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 08:19:06PM +0000, Collins Richey wrote:
> > I've got devfs working almost the way I want it.  The stock
> > /etc/devfsd.conf retains the permissions I've set for sound devices,
> but
> > how can I make it hang onto /dev/scd0&1 for my ide-scsi cdroms?  Right
> now
> > I have to do MAKEDEV each time I want to use them; they disappear with
> > each boot.
> 
> Use /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and 1 instead.
> If you create new devices of the same type somewhere else in /dev, they
> will
> get backed up and restored as long as devfs is running.
> 

Thanks.  Interestingly enough, devfs generates them on my system as
/dev/cdroms/cdrom4 and cdrom6 !!!

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Collins Richey
Denver Area
Gentoo_rc5 XFCE