On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, TR wrote: > I've got two IDE optical drives and my system is always getting confused > between them. I've messed with the jumpers to no avail. > > In response to this thread, I was poking around in my system to figure out how > things work, and discovered a cdrom.rules file. Looking at it, there appeared > to be a lot of duplicate entries (created by YaST). > > I commented out the duplicates and my system now appears to no longer be > confused about the drives. > > Is that cool or what? > To the best of my knowledge, that is fine. I use gentoo and my udev rules for cd drives is 2 lines long (and one of those is a comment). So I think your minimal version is fine. I've barely used SuSe, but the auto config stuff for Redhat, Mandrake, and Ubuntu always seem to put way more stuff than is necessary.
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