> I have experienced the exact same situations as you have described. > But, for some very odd reason, I have not seen an error while mounting > a cdrom ever since I changed my fstab line from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc. > > I am clueless as to why this is the case... heck.
Would depend upon what /dev/cdrom is mapped to, whether you're using the legacy devfs or udev, etc. /dev/hdc will always map to the ide device where /dev/cdrom might be incorrectly configured (i.e. via udev) to not map to the correct device. Dave -- [email protected] mailing list
