On Sunday, Nov 11, 2001, Sean Dague wrote: > I am running Mandrake 8.1 on my IBM Thinkpad T21 from the latest Mandrake > Boxed Set. Everytime I boot my machine the cdrom device gets a different > name, ranging from /dev/cdrom1 to /dev/cdrom3. I have been using devfs on > my desktop machine for nearly a year now, and haven't seen anything like > that. > > I am currious if anyone else has seen such things, or knows how to make the > cdrom calm down and stick with one device. I know I could use the long form > of the device name, but I am currious why this seems to be happening.
Upgrading to the devfsd from Cooker fixed this problem for me (it was 1.3.18-17mdk at the time). Because... * Thu Oct 11 2001 Thierry Vignaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1.3.18-17mdk - fix cdrom link (fergal) Since I did that, I haven't had any problems with /dev/cdrom (had to clean out /lib/dev-state before the reboot also). -- Paul Cox <paul at coxcentral dot com> Kernel: 2.4.8-31.1mdk - Uptime: 6 days 14 hours 39 minutes.
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