Re: [gentoo-user] udev issue? (No /dev/cdroms/XXX on two machines)

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On 9/28/05, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
>
> >In my case the drives are there and working, but the /dev/ names are
> >more old style.
> >
> >mark@lightning ~ $ ls /dev/cdr
> >cdrom   cdrom1  cdrw    cdrw1
> >mark@lightning ~ $ ls /dev/cdrom
> >/dev/cdrom
> >mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrom
> >lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrom -> hda
> >mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrom1
> >lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdb
> >mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrw
> >lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrw -> hda
> >mark@lightning ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrw1
> >lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrw1 -> hdb
> >mark@lightning ~ $
> >
> >Everything is working except I'd have to change fstab to make it easy.
> >Thought I'd ask if there was a known change about udev naming that I
> >hadn't heard about.
> >
> >
>
> I am pretty sure this is intentional.  The /dev/cdroms/XXX syntax was
> "devfs" style, which is now dead.
>
> See the devel list thread starting at:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29504
>
> Or the udev change log at:
> http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/sys-fs/udev/ChangeLog
>
> -Richard

Thanks for finding this Richard. It does look like it's an intentional
change. I guess it's time to start editing my fstab files.

Cheers,
Mark

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