javaguy Posted January 25, 2005 Report Share Posted January 25, 2005 Forgive me if this is spamming a question, but it was kind of a minor point that got lost in another thread, and it's still unresolved so I thought it merits its own thread. I installed Mandrake 10.1, and for the most part I'm pretty happy with it, but one problem I still have is with my /dev/scd0 file. This didn't exist but is expected by some of my applications. Switching user to root and creating a link by that name that points to /dev/hdd does the trick. So far, so good. But when I reboot the machine, it vanishes! So I have to recreate the link every time I reboot the machine. Does anybody know the story on that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamw Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 That's udev managing /dev dynamically. You should be able to reconfigure applications not to look for /dev/scd0 - unless you really have a SCSI CD drive, which is rare, there's no reason it should exist in any case. In the past (on 2.4 kernels), IDE CD/DVD writers needed to pretend to be SCSI drives in order for burning to work, which is why you previously had a /dev/scd0 device and why (presumably) your apps have set themselves up to look for it, but modern apps under a 2.6 kernel should be happy pointing at /dev/hd(whatever) or /dev/cdrom . Check for configuration applications inside the app, or a .applicationname folder in your home directory with a config file inside. If all else fails and you really need a /dev/scd0, you'll have to create a custom rule for udev to create it when it is run; the udev documentation should help you with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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