On 10 Oct 2005, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 02:35:09PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > 2.6.13 won't access /cdrom and 2.6.12 segfaults when I try this. It is > > then impossible to log out normally and I have to pull the plug on the > > computer! > > Well, that sounds a touch drastic. First of all, do you mean > /cdrom? There should be no such file. Do you mean > /dev/cdrom? That used to exist, but I believe it's been > deleted: it used to be a symlink to something like /dev/hdc > (or whatever your CD-ROM drive device was), but lots of > people have multiple CD/DVD drives; how is Linux supposed to > know which one to symlink to? > > The proper approach now, I believe, is to use sysfs. See > below for the info on my system. It says that my CD drive is > /dev/hdc, which I can then -- if I want -- make a symlink > to. I don't know how to make that symlink permanent, such > that /dev/cdrom is there when I reboot. > > (09:39) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/private$ cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info > CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17 > > drive name: hdc > drive speed: 24 > drive # of slots: 1 > Can close tray: 1 > Can open tray: 1 > Can lock tray: 1 > Can change speed: 1 > Can select disk: 0 > Can read multisession: 1 > Can read MCN: 1 > Reports media changed: 1 > Can play audio: 1 > Can write CD-R: 1 > Can write CD-RW: 1 > Can read DVD: 1 > Can write DVD-R: 0 > Can write DVD-RAM: 0 > Can read MRW: 1 > Can write MRW: 1 > Can write RAM: 1 > > -- > Stephen R. Laniel > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > +(617) 308-5571 > http://laniels.org/ > PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
We seem to be at cross-purposes here. I have a directory called /cdrom. My /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/hdc. With this, mounting /cdrom has always worked in the past (for years). I don't know anything about sysfs. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Microsoft-free zone - Using Linux Gnu-Debian http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, on-line books and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]