WHY DOES /dev/cdrom KEEP CHANGING?? CD ROM DRIVE DEVICE KEEPS MOVING??
 

Hello,

I am using Mandrake Linux 8.1 on a Toshiba 1755 Laptop. I have noticed problems with trying to play audio cds. I keep getting messages such as "no audio cd in drive. make sure you have permission to access /dev/cdrom. Upon further investigation, I have noticed that every time I boot into linux, the links in /dev and /dev/cdroms keep changing. They will start as cdrom0 ( /dev/cdrom0 and /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 ) , and everything works great. Audio cds play fine. Then on the next boot, it will be cdrom1 ( /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 ), which dosen't work because /usr/cdrom is still showing its target as /usr/cdroms/cdrom0, which now doesn't exist. Then the next boot we go to cdrom2, then cdrom3...etc up to cdrom9, then on the next boot everything works again, as the links revert back to cdrom0. Then the cycle starts over again. So what this amounts to is a can play audio CDs on every tenth boot. Anybody have any ideas as to how to remedy this?

Thanks,
Danny