Re: /dev/cdrom & /dev/dvd symlinks and udev

cothrige wrote:
> I have two dvd drives, hdc is a standard drive and hdd is a cd/dvd
> writer. The problem is that all the cdrom symlinks always point at
> /dev/hdd which is not my primary drive. I like cdrw and dvdrw as they
> are, but would like to have cdrom and dvd to point correctly to hdc. In
> trying to do this I have followed a number of online howtos but nothing
> has any effect.
>
> I have tried using 10-local.rules, local.rules, z99.rules without luck.
> I have also tried a number of entries in these files, including:
>
> SUBSYSTEMS=="ide", KERNELS=="1.0", SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
>
> and:
>
> KERNEL=="hdc", SUBSYSTEM=="block", SYMLINK+="cdrom"
>
> and a couple of others I cannot even recall right now. I used udevinfo
> to get the above data, and udevtest would return that the symlinks would
> be created, but they never were. They continue to point to /dev/hdd
> apparently regardless of what I do. I have restarted udev with the
> init.d script and have rebooted, all without any change.
>
> What exactly am I doing wrong here? Is there something I am
> overlooking? Is there perhaps another rules file which overrules this
> one and resets or refuses to allow a reset of the symlinks?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Patrick
>
>

See /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-cd.rules this is auto generated by the script in /etc/udev/. I think you can change these around if you set the $GENERATED variable to 0 (from comments in file).

HTH Wackojacko

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