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 -- Nautilus gets confused with similar devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174845 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for nautilus in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs