Public bug reported:
Yesterday I replaced a dead CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drive on my desktop with
a new CD-RW/DVD+-RW drive. I already had a CD-RW/DVD+-RW drive, so now I
have two.
When I booted with the new drive in place, nautilus only showed one of
them. Thinking something is wrong, I opened up a terminal and did
ls /dev/scd*
That returned two devices, as it should. CD/DVD Burning applications
(including the Nautilus CD/DVD Creator) would show both devices listed.
Next, I tried to insert some discs in the drives to see what I can get
in Nautilus... It seems that Nautilus only showed both devices when they
both had something in them. When at least one of them has no disc,
Nautilus returns to showing only one drive.
I have also noticed that Nautilus, when dealing with devices of the same
type (e.g. CD-RW/DVD+-RW drives, or ext3 partitions which carry no
label) reports them as:
CD-RW/DVD+-RW Drive
CD-RW/DVD+-RW Drive (2)
189.9 GB Volume: Music
189.9 GB Volume (2): Downloads
The sizes and names are of course just an example. But since it uses the
name given for the mountpoint under /media, perhaps the numbering gives
nothing useful?
Something useful would be the drive model for CD/DVD drives (e.g. DVD-
RAM GSA-H55N -- which is found in the properties dialog IF you go
looking for it) or the partition (e.g. /dev/sdb1) or even the /media
mountpoint name (but with the unmounted icon, as a visual clue that the
device is unmounted)
An even more friendly scheme would be for direct renaming of devices in
Nautilus. Not actually touching the devices or mountpoints, but rather
using an alias table for devices in fstab.
For example, I'd much rather name my CD/DVD drives something like "LG
GSA-H55N" or "New DVD Recorder." All nautilus would have to do is keep
this as an alias for the device mounted on /dev/scd0.
Most of this is rather a self-brainstorming. Right now the bug is just
the fact that Nautilus doesn't show both of my devices.
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Nautilus gets confused with similar devices
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174845
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