Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 18:18:11 -0500 Mike McCarty Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Someone please advise me on how to proceed to get this drive to work for me the way I would like.
Well, FC2 probably predates udev, but I know when I replaced a DVD drive I found a rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules file which was apparently generated on first boot. I had to modify the file to remove the pointers to the old drive and make the new drive show up as the 1st device.
Wouldn't surprise me if there is something similar stashed under /etc somewhere in FC2.
Your suggestion makes sense, except that the Memorex drive is not the original, either. I don't have the original drive here for test; it's at a friend's house. I installed both the Sony and the Memorex on the same cable etc.; physically the installations are identical.
After a manual mount, I have...
/dev/hdc on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,user=jmccarty)
My /etc/fstab entry looks like this:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
[spaces removed for clarity of reading]
I wonder if this is different? It shows /dev/hdc mounted, not /dev/cdrom.
$ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 21 18:08 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
Maybe I should look at the /dev/cdrom device when it's working.
I don't run udev...
$ man udev No manual entry for udev
I had considered using udev, but after I read the documentation by the author carefully, I decided that the solution he proposed was worse than the problems I experienced, so I haven't pursued it further.
Anyway, thanks for the reply!
Mike