On 9/28/05, Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > >In my case the drives are there and working, but the /dev/ names are > >more old style. > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/cdr > >cdrom cdrom1 cdrw cdrw1 > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /dev/cdrom > >/dev/cdrom > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrom > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrom -> hda > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrom1 > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrom1 -> hdb > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrw > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrw -> hda > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -al /dev/cdrw1 > >lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Sep 27 00:52 /dev/cdrw1 -> hdb > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ > > > >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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
