On Saturday 24 February 2007 18:25, John C. Vernaleo wrote: > 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. It would appear, then, that gentoo rules rule. :-)
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