On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 03:33:48PM -0500, Seb wrote: > On Sun, 16 May 2010 22:02:47 +0200, > Michael <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Seb, Try setting /dev/cdrom instead of LABEL. > > > Usually you have such a link in /dev, pointing to the real device (as > > configured by udev). > > > If you need to check things out then try this, in a root terminal: > > > dmesg | grep CD-ROM > > > You will get a line like, for example > > > 2.042890] sr 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 > > > where sr0 is the 'real' kernel device name. You can also use /dev/dvd > > or anything else set up by udev to be an alias for that drive. > > > I doubt that labels work on exchangeable media since to my > > understanding the labels are on the filesystem, not on the drive > > hardware, and that would change with every other media inserted. > > That's right, I forgot about that fact being used to dealing with hard > drives for most of the time where the label almost never changes. > Keeping the previous /dev/cdrom was the way to go. Thanks.
Would labels help if you wanted it to recognise specific CD's when you put them in the drive? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
