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Re: devfs/cdrom problem

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Subject: Re: devfs/cdrom problem
From: Marc Lavallée <odradek@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 17:14:47 -0500
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On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 15:00:43 -0700 (MST)
Gary Shea <shea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Is it possible for me to convince devfs to assign the cdrom to (the
devfs
> equivalent of) /dev/hdc, at least until Mandrake 8.2?

I have a similar problem, and the workaround is to rebuild the symbolic 
links at the end of the /etc/rc.d/rc.local startup script (my cdrom is a 
scsi burner):

rm -rf /dev/cdrom*
ln -s /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target4/lun0/cd /dev/cdrom

-- 
Marc

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