On 2013-01-07, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm not sure that is a bug. As I posted earlier, this was changed a
> good while back. There was a reason for it but I can't recall what it
> was. The new devices for CD/DVDs is /dev/sr*.
It's been something like 6-8 years hasn't it?
> I don't have, and have
> not had, /dev/cdrom or dvd on this rig for a good while and it works. I
> think this happened about the same time as the hard drive devices were
> changed from hd* to sd* even for old IDE drives.
IIRC, the IDE CDROM devices moved over to the SCSI subsystem some time
before IDE hard drives did -- but it's been a while...
> Since it was changed on purpose, I don't believe this is a bug.
Yes, it was an intentional change. I haven't seen a /dev/hd* device
for years and years.
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