differences between fc16 and fc17 in /dev

[sureshot]

Hello

I again hope i am putting this post in the correct forum. I am a big simh user in the directions it says to use dd to create iso's of all the cd's and change the line in the ini file to use the file needed. In fc16 i was able to access the cdrom directly by just using the path /dev/cdrom0 i also noticed that it had a sepret entry for the cdrw. In fc17 the only entry is /dev/cdrom and the path will not work the same. Is there a work around for this or is this a new way for fedora to acces the cdrom. If there is a doc i need to read please point me to it. I have only had 17 running for a few hours so just bummped up against this. I am new so please be easy with me LOL.


this is an update to this message. I have not had a chance to test this but i may be able to set the path to /dev/sr0 if this is so and someone knows for sure while i setup fc17 64bit. Please leave me a message telling me ok.

thanks in advance for your time and knowlege

sureshot
Phil

[DBelton]

I noticed that very same issue with it not creating the /dev/dvd symlink as well. I just changed the udev rules for the cdrom to create the proper symlinks for me.

Here is my udev rules file.

I named it /etc/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom.rules

# 60-cdrom.rules
ACTION=="remove", GOTO="cdrom_end"
SUBSYSTEM!="block", GOTO="cdrom_end"
KERNEL!="sr[0-9]*|xvd*", GOTO="cdrom_end"
ENV{DEVTYPE}!="disk", GOTO="cdrom_end"

# unconditionally tag device as CDROM
KERNEL=="sr[0-9]*", ENV{ID_CDROM}="1"

# media eject button pressed
ENV{DISK_EJECT_REQUEST}=="?*", RUN+="cdrom_id --eject-media $devnode", GOTO="cdrom_end"

# import device and media properties and lock tray to
# enable the receiving of media eject button events
IMPORT{program}="cdrom_id --lock-media $devnode"

KERNEL=="sr0", SYMLINK+="cdrom cdrw dvd dvdrw", OPTIONS+="link_priority=-100"

LABEL="cdrom_end"

Edit:

also moving to the the general support category since this is F16/F17 and not a rawhide (currently F18) question.

[sureshot]

hello

thanks for proving i was not going crazy. I dont know yet what to do with that information but i will now start searching and reading on ware to put it and how to use it. i am a noobe but i love this os.... it is so refresshing to use something that is not put out by a greedy monster of broken expensive software.

thanks again

sureshot
Phil

[DBelton]

You can pretty much take what I posted above and copy/paste it into /etc/udev/rules.d/60-cdrom.rules (you will probably have to create the file and this will have to be done as root user) Then reboot, and you should have symlinks created for /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrw /dev/dvd /dev/dvdrw all pointing back to /dev/sr0

[sureshot]

the sr0 was a misunderstaing on my part please ignor