From: Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:18:11 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kceovj$fp7$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 50EA2364.4080604@gmail.com
On 2013-01-07, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a
> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it
> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*.
It's been something like 6-8 years hasn't it?
> I don't have, and have
> not had, /dev/cdrom or dvd on this rig for a good while and it works. I
> think this happened about the same time as the hard drive devices were
> changed from hd* to sd* even for old IDE drives.
IIRC, the IDE CDROM devices moved over to the SCSI subsystem some time
before IDE hard drives did -- but it's been a while...
> Since it was changed on purpose, I don't believe this is a bug.
Yes, it was an intentional change. I haven't seen a /dev/hd* device
for years and years.
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I joined scientology
at at a garage sale!!
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-05 19:53 [gentoo-user] 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore Mark Knecht
2013-01-05 20:36 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-01-05 20:46 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-05 20:37 ` Randy Barlow
2013-01-05 20:44 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2013-01-05 23:00 ` David M. Fellows
2013-01-06 11:19 ` Mick
2013-01-06 15:55 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07 1:22 ` Dale
2013-01-07 1:44 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07 1:53 ` William Kenworthy
2013-01-07 2:06 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07 2:08 ` Dale
2013-01-07 2:29 ` Dale
2013-01-07 4:53 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07 7:35 ` Dale
2013-01-07 22:53 ` Mick
2013-01-08 7:09 ` J. Roeleveld
2013-01-08 7:49 ` Mick
2013-01-08 11:53 ` Dale
2013-01-07 15:18 ` Grant Edwards [this message]
2013-01-07 17:37 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-07 23:25 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-08 1:05 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-08 1:15 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-08 6:42 ` Mick
2013-01-08 9:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-08 20:26 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-08 21:12 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-01-08 21:31 ` Michael Mol
2013-01-09 3:22 ` Dale
2013-01-11 14:31 ` Mark Knecht
2013-01-11 14:58 ` Dale
2013-01-06 4:01 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
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