I'm on the train so its hard to check the man pages but can't you use udevtrigger or a similar tool so rebooting isn't required?
On 12/17/09, Nikos Chantziaras <rea...@arcor.de> wrote: > On 12/17/2009 08:42 PM, Denis wrote: >> Hello folks, >> >> Quick question. >> >> My main HD is SATA and gets /dev/sda in fstab. My CDROM, which is the >> only device on the IDE bus, seems to be /dev/hda. That's what >> Audacious declared when it was looking for a CD to play. I had CDROM >> device forced to /dev/cdrom in Audacious, unwittingly, before and was >> wondering why my CDs were not playing! However, my fstab is still >> "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user >> 0 0" - so should I switch this to /dev/hda instead of /dev/cdrom? >> If so, should some link be made to /dev/cdrom, if other programs may >> be querying /dev/cdrom for the sake of Linux standard convention, or >> is /dev/cdrom already a link, which was broken in my case? >> >> Thank you, >> Denis > > You don't need an fstab entry at all. These days, when you insert a CD, > it will get mounted automatically and appear in /media, just like USB > storage devices. > > > -- Sent from my mobile device Kyle
