Well done Douglas

[Knapp]

>> # TSSTcorpCDDVDW_SH-S182D (pci-0000:00:04.0-ide-0:0)
>> # CDDVDW_SH-S182D (pci-0000:00:04.0-scsi-0:0:0:0)

>> Now that is odd. I have one CD player and have always had one and it
>> has NEVER changed! Oh, wait a second those 2 are the same?? IS that
>> normal?
>>
>>
> I'm not sure which "two" you mean are the same.
By two I meant the two at the top of this page. They start out
different but are really the same device.

 The dvd and cdrom links are
> to your _players_, the *rw links are to your _recorders_ - and of course
> for most people they're all the same physical device.  But the device names
> ending in "1" are _not_ the same as the others - one has an IDE path and
> the other has a SCSI path.  I'll give you the same advice as phoenix -
> rename your 70-persistent-cd.rules to something not ending in .rules,
> reboot, and see if it's generated a new, correct, one.  If not, just rename
> the old one back.
> --
> derek

Ahead of you. It is done and it worked. DVD is now in dev and dvd1 is
gone same for the cd1 stuff too. Guess I should change back the
kaffiene settings but they still will work with /dev/scd0 of course.


douglas at frog:/dev$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_cd_rules
# program, probably run by the cd-aliases-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line
# and set the $GENERATED variable.

# CDDVDW_SH-S182D (pci-0000:00:04.0-scsi-0:0:0:0)
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:04.0-scsi-0:0:0:0",
SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:04.0-scsi-0:0:0:0",
SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:04.0-scsi-0:0:0:0",
SYMLINK+="dvd", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:04.0-scsi-0:0:0:0",
SYMLINK+="dvdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"


Now someone needs to write this up as solved! I would but am VERY out
of time. Thanks everyone for all the help!!

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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