On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 12:45 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: > On 5/23/05, jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When I used fedora, the cdrom device is named as "/dev/cdrom" . However, in > > my new gentoo system, it's recognized as /dev/hdd. > > > > Why is that? Could any one please explain it? > > > > And how can I change that device name back to /dev/cdrom? > > when you said you saw it was /dev/cdrom, it was just a link to > /dev/hd*. the * depends on how many IDE drives you have. but I'm not > sure if you can just make a link manually.
You don't have to link anything manually. You can let udev handle it. There are plenty of tutorials on writing udev rules, have a look: http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html there is even an example named "Example: Writing convenience rules for my CD drives". -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
