wrong cdrom and dvd links recreated upon restart

bugsbunny · 06-10-2004, 06:31 PM

My cdrom and dvd links points ro /dev/hdd instead of /dev/hdc. so i rm -f cdrom and dvd. then i recreated the link for both this time making sure that it points to /dev/hdc. The weired thing is that when i restart my pc the links are recreated to ponit to /dev/hdd and my old liks removed.

What is happening ? How do i stop the links from being recreated after i have done the right thing.

ringwraith · 06-10-2004, 08:05 PM

You make the link changes as root? You are running 9.1 or current with udev? Are you running hotplug?

bugsbunny · 06-11-2004, 02:05 PM

I am running slack 9.1 current but with kernel 2.6.6 and hotplug.

bugsbunny · 06-13-2004, 03:04 AM

I noticed that every time i boot my pc all the devices in /dev are created afresh . The cdrom and dvd devices however point to hdd instead of hdc. When i recreate the links and make them point to hdc , they are overwritten with the wrong link upon reboot.

I thinks it has something to do with the scripts in /etc/udev but i have gone thru them amd i don't know what and which file to change.

I'll apppreciate any help please.

lems · 06-13-2004, 04:16 AM

Create the file /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules with this content:

Code:

BUS="ide", KERNEL="hdc", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="dvd cdroms/cdrom%n"
BUS="ide", KERNEL="hdc", NAME="%k", SYMLINK="cdrom cdroms/cdrom%n"

More information here:
http://www.reactivated.net/udevrules.php

bugsbunny · 06-13-2004, 06:10 AM

Thnx Lems, the code didn't work but it helped me find a solution. What i did was i changed the KERNEL entry for

Code:

# permissions for IDE CD devices
BUS="ide", KERNEL="*[!0-9]", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="floppy*", NAME="%k", GROUP="floppy", MODE="0660"

To

Code:

# permissions for IDE CD devices
BUS="ide", KERNEL="hdc", PROGRAM="/bin/cat /proc/ide/%k/media", RESULT="cdrom*", NAME="%k", GROUP="cdrom", MODE="0660"

and it now works.