on my slack12.0 box all links that node to the CD/DVD drive are ending
with "1".

$ls /dev/cd*
/dev/cdr1 /dev/cdrom1 /dev/cdrw1 /dev/cdwriter1

$ls /dev/dvd*
/dev/dvd1 /dev/dvdrw1 /dev/dvdwriter1

I don't know why they're all ending with "1"!
there is some time ago i symlinked all these nodes with name without that
"1" but at the next boot they all won't stay.

i don't want to add a script to symlink at boot.
i want to know why things have gone this way.

it's quite annoying because when i want to watch a dvd or any video cd i'm
forced to specify the device name to mplayer otherwise mplayer won't find
the device.

Hallo, heavytull,

Du meintest am 10.02.08:

> on my slack12.0 box all links that node to the CD/DVD drive are
> ending with "1".

> $ls /dev/cd*
> /dev/cdr1 /dev/cdrom1 /dev/cdrw1 /dev/cdwriter1

> i don't want to add a script to symlink at boot.
> i want to know why things have gone this way.

If you use "udev" then define these devices in "/lib/udev/devices". When
"udev" starts working it first copies these entries to "/dev".

Viele Gruesse
Helmut

"Ubuntu" - an African word, meaning "Slackware is too hard for me".

heavytull@hotmail.com wrote:
> on my slack12.0 box all links that node to the CD/DVD drive are ending
> with "1".
>
> $ls /dev/cd*
> /dev/cdr1 /dev/cdrom1 /dev/cdrw1 /dev/cdwriter1
>
> $ls /dev/dvd*
> /dev/dvd1 /dev/dvdrw1 /dev/dvdwriter1
>
> I don't know why they're all ending with "1"!
> there is some time ago i symlinked all these nodes with name without that
> "1" but at the next boot they all won't stay.
>
> i don't want to add a script to symlink at boot.
> i want to know why things have gone this way.
>
> it's quite annoying because when i want to watch a dvd or any video cd i'm
> forced to specify the device name to mplayer otherwise mplayer won't find
> the device.

You might have to remove /etc/udev/rules.d/75-optical-device.rules and
reboot. That file remembers CD drives (even if they are gone), and new
devices get the next number. (For example, I removed an IDE CD and
installed a SATA CD and it became /dev/cdrom1 even though cdrom and cdrom0
were gone.)